“No Big Russia Offensive in Ukraine in 2024, Igor Girkin Predicts”
Newsweek reports:
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine is developing in “a very bad way,” but a “broad offensive” is no longer planned in the spring or summer, former Russian military commander Igor Girkin has predicted.
Writing in a letter from his prison cell, which was published on his personal Telegram account on Thursday, the Russian nationalist—who has been highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the war—suggested his nation’s forces would be short of men needed to mount any large-scale attacks until mobilizations restarted.
“There will be no mobilization yet—until the ‘elections’ for sure,” he wrote in Russian. “They will try to patch up ‘holes in the ranks’ and new units at the expense of prisoners and contract soldiers.”
Girkin, who also goes by Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, added: “In turn, means that in the spring we will have no one and nothing with which to attack (and if mobilization is not carried out in the spring, then there will be no one in the summer).””
X-101/555/55 cruise missiles launched towards Ukraine from over the Caspian Sea.