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The Ukrainian command prepared about 80,000 fighters for a counter-offensive operation, calculated security expert, reserve colonel, combat veteran Roman Nasonov.
He counted about eight mechanized brigades. According to him, Kiev overestimates their numbers.
“Despite all the forces to strengthen them, there are about 75-80 thousand of them,” Nanosov told Ura.ru.
The Promised West device will not allow “to remove under armor” all personnel that are planned to be sent to the offensive, the expert added. He pointed out that the size of the group would not be enough to break the defense in depth. of Russian formations and units.
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