"Before winter": the Armed Forces can break the land corridor with Crimea - Budanov

According to the head of the GUR, there is absolutely no strategic reserve in the Russian Federation. It has only 80% of personnel and 55% of the technique of the required number. The head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) Kirill Budanov on September 17 stated that the Armed Forces may have time to break the land corridor of the Russian Federation with temporarily occupied Crimea before winter. He said this in an interview with The Economist.

According to him, there is a cause for concern in Russia, not in Ukraine. "Its first defensive line in the most important southern direction in the Zaporizhzhia region is already broken, which means that the operation to break the land connections between Russia and Crimea can be completed before winter," - said the head of the GUR.

Kirill Budanov believes that Ukraine may have already attracted a limited number of forces of its reserve troops, but now Russia is allocating insufficiently completed reserves that it did not plan to deploy by the end of October 2023. "Contrary to what states the Russian Federation, it has absolutely no strategic reserve.

The 25th Army Army of Russia, which is now prematurely transferred to the Eastern Front in the area of ​​Liman and Kupyansk, has only 80% of personnel and 55% of equipment from the required number ", - the general emphasized. Commenting on reports that Russia is ready to activate its continuous mobilization campaign, Lieutenant General Budanov believes that the number of personnel is the only obvious advantage that Russia still preserves before Ukraine.

"Human resources in Russia, relatively speaking, is infinite. Quality is low but the number is sufficient. As for other components of hostilities, Russian resources are depleted and paying. , "perhaps earlier," he says, although the evidence confirming his assertion is heterogeneous, "the head of GUR stressed. We will remind, on September 13 the head of intelligence Kirill Budanov stated that the Russian Federation receives weapons from North Korea for a year and a half.