The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Vadim Skibitsky said that the Russian Federation plans to form 16 new battalions by the end of July, Radio Liberty reports..

" This is a new approach, which the Russian Federation began quite recently. A month ago, about 50 subjects of the Russian Federation received an order to form such battalions, the number is different - 500-600 people. We clearly know that today 8 battalions have already been formed. It is planned to form another 8 battalions by the end of the month, it will be 16 battalions. According to our estimates, there will be about 4,000 people in each region, including in Crimea there will be such a battalion,"

According to him, the Kremlin is also forming another corps in the Nizhny Novgorod region - this is from 10 to 15 thousand people..

" And we do not exclude that it will be transferred to our territory.

Thus, they are trying to streamline so that all these units that they recruit are formed so that they have a powerful offensive and defensive potential, when well-coordinated battalions could act like those battalions of tactical groups that were defeated by us,"

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The representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Vadim Skibitsky said that the Kremlin is conducting covert mobilization in three ways.