British intelligence underlines the high cost of the projectiles and that the use of prisoners to bolster Russian ranks and the mobilization of thousands of recruits shows that Moscow is in a “desperate” situation
Just days after eight months since Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to invade Ukraine on February 24, the Kremlin continues to show its brutality by bombing energy and civilian infrastructure. Last Monday, it launched about a hundred missiles, nearly half of which were shot down by Kiev’s defense systems. More than ten people were killed and a hundred people were injured. Such destruction cost Russia up to 700 million dollars (about 723 million euros), according to the Ukrainian edition of the economic magazine “Forbes”, stating that most projectiles were “expensive and of high precision”, such as the “K-101”. , ‘Kh-555’, ‘Kalibr’, ‘S-300’ and ‘Tornado-S’ systems.
Putin is paying a high price for this war. And he is left alone against the world. His decision-making is “flawed” and has left him in a “desperate” situation, said Jeremy Fleming, director of the secretive GCHQ, Britain’s intelligence, cyber and security agency. “Russia is running out of ammunition, it certainly has no friends left and we have seen, as a result of the mobilization declaration, that it has run out of troops,” he said in an interview on BBC Radio 4.
The Russian army is “exhausted,” Fleming emphasized. According to The Washington Post newspaper, the use of prisoners for reinforcements, and now the mobilization of tens of thousands of inexperienced recruits, speaks of a desperate situation at the front, where Russian ranks are “depleting their supplies and ammunition.”
The situation is drastic, experts say, and the Russian population is beginning to understand the reality of the war. Since Putin declared the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, an even larger number fled to neighboring countries to avoid being recruited. Hundreds of thousands of civilians showed that they do not want to fight (by breaking limbs, setting themselves on fire or even committing suicide) and that they are against the war (hundreds of people have been arrested and recruited to protest the mobilization).
The mass exodus continued this Wednesday, with some 20 civilians sailing from Vladivostok to South Korea to avoid being recruited. However, most were denied entry, according to Asian media reports. Only two were able to access without any problems. others? The authorities believed that its purpose was “ambiguous”.
The Russian people, Fleming told the BBC, “see how poorly Putin has assessed the situation. He flees from the current and realizes that they can no longer travel. You know that your access to modern technologies and outside influences will be drastically limited. And he feels the full magnitude of the terrible human cost of his war of choice.”
Source: La Verdad
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