Russia forms another strike force near Ukraine. Russia failed to implement its plans for covert mobilization and the creation of 16 volunteer battalions. Rifle units were to be deployed in almost every region of the Russian Federation, Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, said, the intelligence press service reports..

“According to confirmed data, by mid-July, 8 battalions were formed. This is not enough for the RF. These battalions were formed somehow. Anyone was recruited into their composition, ”Skibitsky noted..

According to him, that is why the Russian Federation decided to form a third separate army corps to conduct hostilities..

Now this corps is being formed in the western military district in order to use it as an association against Ukraine.

“They announced their plans to form this corps by mid-August,” said a representative of the military intelligence of Ukraine.

In addition, Skibitsky announced the catastrophic understaffing of the combat units of the occupying forces with officer cadres.. He added that the highest command echelon of the Russian army did not fulfill the tasks that were set for him in February and March on the occupation of Ukraine, and was removed.

Also, according to Skibitsky, the middle command level of the occupation units is noticeably understaffed..

“According to the information that the military intelligence of Ukraine receives from various sources, including from radio intercepts, we see that the lack of officer cadres is simply catastrophic.. They say that there are no officers in the units at all, and if there are, then no one knows or sees them..

And we see this problem in the formation of this third army corps and other units that Russia is forming,” Skibitsky said..

He explained that in order to ensure the presence of lower-level commanders in the units, the leadership of the Russian Federation is forced to assign the rank of junior lieutenant to non-commissioned officers..

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Earlier it was reported that the hospitals of the Russian Federation cannot cope with the existing number of wounded occupiers, the aggressor country is mobilizing medical staff.