In order to successfully repel Russian attacks at the front, Ukraine should recruit more soldiers, according to Brigadier General of the German Bundeswehr (army) Christian Freuding, quoted by dpa and Agerpres.

“Ukraine will definitely have to mobilize more soldiers, at least because of the number of casualties we see,” the head of the Center for the Situation in Ukraine of the German Defense Ministry told the German media group Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). in comments posted Monday.

Freuding also mentioned the need to rotate the Ukrainian military, some of whom have been at the front for 24 months. The method and scope of mobilization are now the subject of heated discussions in Ukraine.

The German brigadier general critically evaluates the information from Kyiv about the differences between the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and his chief commissar Valery Zaluzhny.

“We cannot look behind the scenes,” he said, “but of course we are watching these discussions between the military and the political leadership.” “And, of course, we hope that Ukraine will preserve the unity that made it strong in the defense of the country in recent months and years,” he said.

“Such a discussion is also a sign of a democratic state. But in the long run, this does not contribute to the defense effort,” he added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he is considering the possibility of replacing several high-ranking officials, and not only the military, to determine who will lead the country.

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Last Monday, information appeared in the Ukrainian mass media that President Zelensky offered Zaluzhny a new position, but the general refused.

The differences between the two emerged after a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched last year achieved only limited success against entrenched Russian forces along a 1,000-kilometer front line in southern and eastern Ukraine.

In November, Zaluzhny gave an interview to Western media in which he stated that the war had entered a new phase of exhaustion, which prompted reprimands from the president.

Last week, as speculation about his firing intensified, he laid out his case in an op-ed for CNN in favor of new electronic warfare.

Zaluzhny also noted that some Ukrainian institutions are preventing the country from achieving its goals, including attempts to create an effective combat force to counter Russia’s numerical superiority, Reuters notes.