"There Will Be A Turning Point At The Front."
- 6.02.2026, 19:19
Moscow is suffering huge losses.
Because of the huge losses on the front, Moscow is constantly looking for new ways to replenish the army - from bribing foreigners to forcibly mobilizing Ukrainians into occupation.
But the Russian war machine has a physical limit that the Ukrainian Defense Forces can use to turn the situation around. The commander of the 429th separate brigade of unmanned systems "Achilles" of the Command of Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Yuriy Fedorenko told this.
He noted that although foreign mercenaries are recorded in the ranks of the enemy, their number is not critical, and the main backbone is made up of Russians who came to war for money.
- In those regions where we work, there is a certain number of mercenaries. This indicates that the enemy is doing systematic work to bribe citizens of other countries. But their ratio is not very large. Mostly they are citizens of the Russian Federation who signed contracts for 'lifting money'," Fedorenko said.
The situation is most tragic in the temporarily occupied territories, where Ukrainians are forced to fight against their own country.
"Unfortunately, there are those who are Ukrainians by citizenship, who remained in the occupied territories and whom the Russian Federation is now putting in line. Those who now choose the "evader" regime should remember: there are no recruiting programs where the RF comes in. Everyone is forcibly put under the gun, and Ukrainians are wiped out in the war against their own state as expendable material in the most difficult areas," he stressed.
At the same time, it should be understood that Russia's ability to replenish manpower at the front is limited by the capacity of training centers. It is this limit that determines the strategic task for the Ukrainian defenders.
"Russia still has enough resource for replenishment, but there are limits to the training capabilities. Now they can train from 30,000 to 37,000 people a month. Based on this, the Defense Forces need to organize their work so that we can destroy 50 thousand occupants per month. Then the enemy will lose the opportunity to conduct active offensive actions, and we will have a tool for the necessary political and diplomatic influence on the aggressor," emphasized Yuriy Fedorenko.