2023-06-22 10:42:00
10:04 GMT, June 22, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council to discuss the area of the special military operation. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev briefed the president on the situation at the front.
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The Russian head of state indicated that Ukraine’s mobilization reserves are not unlimited and kyiv’s Western allies they decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
“Equipment, of course, can be supplied additionally. But the mobilization reserve is not unlimited, and it seems that the Western allies of Ukraine really decided to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian,” he said. Vladimir Putin.
He stressed that the offensive potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has not been exhausted. According to the president, have not been activated yet a series of strategic reservations and addressing the members of the Security Council, demanded that “they take it into account when building combat operations.”
Shoigu: Ukrainian forces have reduced their activity
Ukrainian troops, after 16 days of intense fighting, have reduced their activity and are regrouping, the Russian Defense Minister said, Sergei Shoigu.
“After 16 days of active combat operations, having suffered significant losses, we are now [el enemigo] it is regrouping and reconfiguring, bringing together battalion units,” he told the Russian Security Council meeting.
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Meanwhile, Shoigu added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces still have the strength for an offensive despite the losses suffered.
“Naturally, the enemy still has the forces to carry out new offensives, despite the large number of losses of both materiel and personnel,” he reported.
Supplies to the Russian Armed Forces
As for the Russian Armed Forces, the Defense Minister noted that they will form a reserve army and an army corps by the end of June and will receive more than 3,700 units equipment in the near future.
“We are forming reserves as part of an army corps, an army, plus five regiments of the 20th Army Tank Corps. Everything is going according to plan there. In fact, by the end of June we will complete the formation of the reserve army and there in the near future we will complete the formation of the army bloc,” Shoigu stressed.
The Defense Minister commented that Russian troops receive an average of more than 110 modernized equipment and new every day.
“To give us an idea, we receive an average of 1,336 hired men every day, which actually means that we receive one regiment every 24 hours. In addition, (…) every day we receive 112 pieces of equipment. This applies both to the modernized equipment as well as new ones, so we have picked up a serious pace in this aspect, and we do not see any risk of interruption in the formation of reserves,” he said.
Five regiments already have 60% of its troopsboth in terms of personnel and equipment, the minister said.
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Volunteers are trained in eight polygons per more than 600 instructorsShoigu clarified. He added that all the trainers have military experience and that the volunteer formations are now “fully trained combat units.” The Russian Defense Minister stated that the volunteers who join the Russian Army are highly motivated.
“I know that they have been paying attention to the volunteers (…) I want to highlight their great motivation,” he said.
Russian troops have recruited 114,000 men under direct contract already 52,000 volunteerssaid the Russian Defense Minister.
Patrushev: Ukraine lost more than 13,000 soldiers during its counteroffensive
The casualties of the Ukrainian Army during its counteroffensive have already exceeded 13,000 people, reported the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev.
“Casualties of Soldiers [ucranianos]… are already more than 13,000“, he declared.
Regarding the military equipment, Patrushev stated that the Russian Army has already destroyed 246 Ukrainian tanksincluding 13 Westerners, implicated in the attempted offensive of kyiv.
“We are counting the military equipment that the enemy has lost, and we receive information from the Ministry of Defense, the Border Service of the FSB [el Servicio de Seguridad de Rusia]the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB and Rosgvardia,” said the secretary of the Security Council.
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As of today, he continued, “we have the following data that has been destroyed from June 4 to 21: 246 tanks, including 13 Westerners; 595 armored fighting vehicles and armored vehicles, including 152 BMPs, 59 Western; 443 armored combat vehicles. Field artillery guns and mortars: 279 units, including 48 Westerners.”
According to his words, the Russian Army has also destroyed 42 multiple rocket launchers y 10 tactical fighters committed by kyiv in its counteroffensive.
“Multiple launch rocket systems – 42 units; surface-to-air missile systems – 2 units; tactical fighters – 10 units; helicopters – four units; UAVs – 264 units; automotive equipment – 424 units,” Patrushev calculated. .
The Ukrainian counteroffensive in the directions south of Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Artiomovsk began on June 4, and Ukrainian troops concentrated their main blow on the Zaporozhye area. On June 9, Putin indicated that the Ukrainian armed forces did not achieve their objectives at any time thanks to to the value of the Russian militarythe quality of equipment, especially modern, and the correct organization of the Army. The Russian president announced, on February 24, the launch of a special military operation to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, previously recognized by Moscow as sovereign statesin front of genocide committed by kyiv. One of the fundamental objectives of the special military operation is the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
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