Arestovych: Russia manages to gather certain reserves, transfer dozen or two battalion tactical groups to Ukraine, it is the last thing they can throw here
Russia has chosen the most senseless plan of action in Ukraine, which will only lead to an increase in the number of dead Russian military, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the head of the President's Office, has said.
"They [Russia] were able to accumulate certain reserves. The state and volume of these reserves are now difficult to accurately express on the air of the telethon. However, I can say that this is a dozen or two battalion tactical groups and their quality is rather doubtful," Arestovych said on the air of the national telethon on Saturday, answering the question of the hosts about the likelihood of an offensive by the occupiers in the eastern and northern directions.
According to the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office, the reserves accumulated by Russia include a core of professional military personnel, while the other part of these reserves consists of mobilized law enforcement officers and mercenaries of private military companies.
"There is a core of combat brigades that arrived from Russia and this is the last thing they can throw here, and some are policemen from some Bashkiria who were caught, given machine guns and said: "Go fight in Ukraine." And some are PMC members," Arestovych said.
He said that these battalion tactical groups will not play a significant role either in the east or in the north, adding that the Ukrainian Defense Forces will do everything possible to defend the country and, perhaps, "something will happen that the Russians will not be able to act skillfully at all in one direction or another."
"A week ago, we talked and I said that there would be a "fork:" either they would agree to negotiations, or they would agree to negotiations after the next attempt to capture something there... They chose the most stupid course of action, i.e. they will throw into battle these scratched reserves. As a result, we will return to negotiations anyway. There will simply be 10,000 more Russians killed. Why is this necessary, this is a question of the Russian people to their government," the adviser to the head of the President's Office said.
