Ukraine would call up more than 200,000 soldiers for an imminent counteroffensive against Russian troops, says head Yevgeny Prigozhin. the most important group of mercenaries in Russia.

“They gathered about 200,000 people. Even almost 400 thousand, according to other estimates. The enemy is serious and has been preparing for what is happening for many years,” Progozhin said in a discussion with members of the Ciber Frente Z group, writes EFE, Agerpres reports.

Prigozhin also claims that Ukraine will not start a counteroffensive yet, because the authorities in Kyiv are waiting for the land to dry out and Western weapons to reach it.

“Wagner cannot win the war alone. We must join our efforts,” Prigozhin said.

The Russians would suffer colossal losses every day

On the other hand, Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivskyi said Sunday night on national television news that Russia will lose about two lives a day in its attempts to capture the town of Avdiyivka on Ukraine’s eastern front.

“They bear colossal losses. Every day, the enemy loses about two companies, but they always start over,” said the Ukrainian official, who also explained that the positional battles in the Maryinka and Avdiivka areas will continue without significant changes.

Russian troops, – said Dmytroshkivskyi, – sometimes achieve results, “but all our positions captured by the enemy are recaptured and returned” by the Ukrainian army.

Dmytroshkivskyi also says that, according to the statements of Russian prisoners of war captured by Ukrainians, Russian army commanders send soldiers into battle without any training. “They are simply woken up in the middle of the night, under automatic fire, and sent to attack,” he said.

In Monday’s military bulletin, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine explained that Russian troops continue to concentrate their efforts in the districts of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Maryinka, which are located on the eastern front. Ukrainians repelled 58 attacks on these four areas over the past day, according to the summary of the Ukrainian military leadership.

Capture of civilians in Luhansk

In addition, on Monday, the military administration of the Luhansk region condemned the raids and capture of civilians, which the Moscow-imposed authorities will carry out in this region of eastern Ukraine, which is mostly occupied by Russian troops.

“Cases of forceful seizure of the civilian population by the Russian invaders do not stop. In particular, in the city of Satrobilsk, the houses of citizens suspected of supporting Ukraine are being searched and taken to an unknown place, from where they will never return,” says the message of the military administration of the region, published on the Telegram account. condemns other abuses committed by the occupying forces.

In the town of Tsymirivka, the occupiers had recently looted a kindergarten, and near Popasna they would have stolen tombstones from the cemetery to change the inscriptions and use them for the graves of Russian soldiers.