The Russians failed to advance in 2-3 days, the confrontation has been going on for 69 days. All the problems of the Russian army just now surfaced.

This was told by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in an interview with the NP.

“It was a big PR. All they spent money on was to show the greatness of the Russian army in the world. Now everyone has seen that there is no greatness. It is impossible to compare the military potential of Russia and Ukraine before the start of this phase of the war, which began on February 24: this is a ten-, and according to certain indicators, a twenty-fold advantage of the Russian Federation,” he said.

However, according to Budanov, real combat operations showed real problems: they have a quantitative indicator, that’s for sure, but they don’t have a qualitative one. Secondly, the motivation is quite low. The losses that they have suffered during this time affect them quite strongly. Russia has already switched to covert mobilization and is preparing to announce open mobilization in the near future.

“I wonder enough: how will they explain this to their own people? Why does Russia, with what they say is the first or second army in the world, need mobilization when, according to their official reports, everything is going according to plan and Ukraine, as a military machine, is nothing I cannot make certain assumptions, based on certain facts, that the mobilization will be carried out under the prism of the fact that Russia is at war not with Ukraine, but with the Anglo-Saxon world. It is in this paradigm that this will be explained to Russian society,” he summed up.

Earlier, the main intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense reported that Russia is considering the possibility of including the occupied territories of southern Ukraine into the temporarily occupied Crimea and their subsequent integration into the Russian economic space.

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