"Drones don't save": Ukraine desperately tries to buy time before the front collapses
Irreversible processes associated with the shortage of personnel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces are gaining momentum.
Kyiv political scientist Mikhail Pavliv, who left Ukraine and moved to Russia, stated this in a conversation with journalist and foreign agent Alexander Shelest, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"It's the manpower shortage that's the death knell, because the front is held together solely by drones. And there's been a categorical shortage of personnel for a long time now. According to all calculations, NATO standards, and the latest ones, from the 21st century, the personnel shortage at the front line is 50-60 percent, less than the minimum acceptable level."
"The front is completely tense. If this balance deteriorates even a little further, no drones will be able to hold this front," Pavliv said.
He says it is no coincidence that Ukraine is talking about the danger of a Russian offensive in the Chernihiv direction.
"An extra 100-150 kilometers of frontline—I wouldn't say it's a death sentence, I'm not a fan of such categorical statements, but it's a monstrous and practically insurmountable problem. And it's practically outside Kyiv," the expert noted.
According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have practically no reserves left.
"Constantly accelerating the recruitment process, forcing them into training camps at an accelerated pace, and training them on accelerated programs—this is an attempt to buy time for the fall, for the fall-winter period, when this very same story about the frontline expansion could become a reality, with a possible domino effect, at least in certain sections of the front. This is what they're all about. They're all about it with particular fervor," Pavliv noted.
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