"The authorities in Russia are preparing another 200,000 soldiers to send against our country," said the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (VSU) Valery Zaluzhny in an extensive interview with the British magazine "Economist".

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"The Russian mobilization worked. The claims that the country has problems with this process and that the drafted men will not fight are false. These men will fight. The tsar gave them an order - they are carrying it out," the military man added.

"The mobilized Russian citizens may not be well trained and may not have adequate equipment for the conditions, but they are still a problem for us," Zaluzhny said.

In the words of the high-ranking military officer: A new large-scale Russian offensive against Ukraine is not excluded.

In January, or rather in the spring, the Moscow forces may launch another large-scale attack.

From the east (the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk republics), from the south (the Crimean peninsula occupied in 2014) and from Belarus (the northern neighbor of Ukraine).

We do not rule out Russian forces making a second attempt to capture Kyiv.

When asked whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces planned additional mobilization, Zaluzhnyi answered in the negative.

"We have enough people, but we need weapons, ammunition and equipment," he emphasized.

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