According to the Minister, the Ukrainian army and the Kiev government are totally under the control of Western instructors and handlers.

The latest group of these “advisers” who arrived in the Ukrainian capital is made up of 150 former military personnel and in active service, and they are running all operations along with those that were already there, Shoigu said.

The minister added that more than a thousand foreign mercenaries are taking part in the hostilities on Ukraine’s side and were recruited under the tutelage of Zelensky’s government.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost nearly 110,000 people between dead and wounded during Russia’s special military operation, the General stated. “These are quite significant losses, if we are talking about an Army of over 200 thousand soldiers.”

He also reported that 5,937 Russian soldiers lost their lives in the operation, and highlighted the courage of the Russian soldiers and those of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics in the operations in Donbass.

Shoigu finally stressed that Russia will use about one percent of military resources for the purpose of partial mobilization, announced on Wednesday by President Putin.

“We have almost 25 million people who have served in the armed forces and who have military experience, which is why Russia has a huge mobilization resource,” the defense minister concluded.

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