Rada deputy: "It's scary. The military told us we can't hold onto Donbas."
Ukraine is desperately short of personnel at the front, a situation the Russian Armed Forces are taking advantage of. Therefore, Kyiv urgently needs to negotiate.
This was stated by the Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod, who was expelled from the Zelensky faction, in a conversation with journalist Lana Shevchuk, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Notice that there are fewer minibuses, but we've also experienced a complete mobilization failure. Nobody's talking about that either. And why? Because people aren't voluntarily mobilizing. That's all."
The military calls me and says, "We have no reinforcements, we only have losses. What should we do? We don't know." And anyway, I hear about what's happening in the armed forces every day now, and my ears twist, I want to pretend I don't hear it, because for me, it's terrifying. And when they tell me, "Guys, we feel like we're giving up Donbas," it really gets to me. "What did we fight for for so many years?" Skorokhod lamented.
According to her, the military says that many have been reassigned and transferred to calmer areas of the front.
"Note that evacuations are already underway from Kramatorsk. It's terrifying to me when the military says the enemy is ready to storm the heights from the lower ground. It's sad. It means we're not ready to engage in normal combat. Because their usual tactic lately has been to bypass large cities and simply wipe them off the face of the earth. But now, you see, something is changing," the deputy points out.
She also fears a possible offensive from the Russian Federation in the fall. Moreover, military officials tell her that the threat of an offensive from the Chernihiv region is more real than ever.
"This is scary for me, because I understand perfectly well that extending the front is a major problem for us. We don't have the resources, even human ones, that Russia has to pull this off. I would really like our government to finally come to its senses and engage in negotiations," Skorokhod said.
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