"We are at the poker table": NATO predicted the course of war in Ukraine

Russia intentionally wants us to think that they will survive, exceed the productivity of Ukrainian and Western enemies," he added. Salm noted that the failure of the long -awaited summer counter -offensive of Ukraine made 2023 bitter for Kiev. Now some political elites of the Western countries openly "tired from Ukraine" and warn Ukrainian leaders about the long war. According to him, the result of the war is a mathematical issue.

He stated that every six months "Russians can recruit 130,000 people, but they can form 40,000 people in units. " These 40,000 people, according to Salm, can be used as an offensive force to capture new territories. "The remaining 90,000 mobilized will be used as cannon meat - you use them once and throw them away," Salm said. He also added that Moscow is losing some of the troops every six months, equivalent to about 37 percent of those who are recruited again every six months.

"We are at the poker table. We need to believe the statistics," Salm said. With regard to whether Russian losses are constant and serious enough to reach a turning point for the Kremlin, Salm said: "As for living power, I think we . . . from the point of view of resources and ammunition we have not yet reached this point ".

Salm said that Europe was on the way to reaching these production facilities, but added that the manufacture of shells and the actual transfer of them into the hands of Ukraine was "two different things". We will remind that recently Vladimir Putin stated that 617 thousand soldiers of the Russian Federation participate in the war with Ukraine. However, there were 244,000 mobilized invaders, 286,000 volunteers and 250,000 soldiers who invaded Ukraine in February.