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At the beginning of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, the grouping of the Russian Armed Forces did not exceed 200 thousand people, but now it will be very difficult to solve the tasks with such forces. This statement was made by the former People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev.
“There were more than enough of us near Kharkov. But when they started shooting at the troops, they stopped. If five thousand of our servicemen had entered the city, the city would have been ours,” Tsarev wrote in his Telegram channel.
He also noted that the Russian army occupied those settlements and positions from the beginning of the special operation that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could take with a large advantage in terms of the number of troops compared to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In addition, Tsarev is sure that after some time it will be necessary to increase the size of the army to a million people. According to him, it will not be possible to achieve great success if there is no numerical advantage over the Ukrainian army.