'It's not huge, but it's enough for our soldiers to feel like they did something great,' Oleksandr Korniyenko told Newsweek.
"It will not be light work for our army," he added."In this time, Russia became stronger in defense, they built some fortresses, some special [defenses], dragon teeth, et cetera. But the dragon teeth are also part of their informational war. Because they haven't put them on all 1,300 kilometers of the front line. That's impossible."
Former Soviet leader Joesph Stalin is credited with the assertion that"quantity has a quality all its own" when discussing military strength. Korniyenko said the Kremlin appears to be retesting that theory, as well as that of legendary World War Two Marshall Georgy Zhukov who—when faced with high personnel losses—is said to have replied:"Women will give birth to more."
"The amount of Russian troops is not the most [important] factor," he said."It's more about effective use of those troops. If Russia, by some miracle, started to do this?...I don't believe it, because last time they didn't. Last year they didn't. It looked like a competition to be the most ineffective in the use of troops."
Hopes that sudden political crises in Russia will change the Ukrainian dynamic have so far proved fruitless. Korniyenko said Kyiv is not holding out for such developments.
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