Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing the conditions for a broader mobilization campaign, while Russia also plans to recruit another 30,000 military personnel from North Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
According to Ukrinform, Zelensky made the remarks in his evening video address.
"We have comprehensive intelligence reports on Russia’s plans for the fall. What is not in Russia’s plans is peace. Unfortunately, not yet. Putin is preparing the conditions for expanding mobilization. His casualty figures speak for themselves. In less than seven months this year, 221,000 people have joined the ranks of the Russian Armed Forces. During the same period, Russian casualties have amounted to nearly 225,500, among them 131,000 killed and almost 93,000 wounded. A significant share of those wounds are severe, as frontline medical care in Russia is catastrophically poor," Zelensky said.
According to the Ukrainian President, Putin is preparing to send more Russians to war.
"He disguises it with different words and signals, but that is what he is preparing to do. It is crucial that, together with our partners, we exert enough pressure on Russia so that the idea of ending this aggression becomes the dominant one – the idea of peace, not of another Russian mobilization. Our long-range operations and our mid-range strikes are helping with this. More and more Russians are noticing Putin’s war, taking losses because of it, and thinking that this war should not be dragged out. We see this," Zelensky said.
