Kremlin could mobilise up to one million more troops - German intelligence

According to Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland, citing the head of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Bruno Kahl, Russia is preparing to send additional forces to the front - up to 1 million people in total.

According to the head of the Federal Intelligence Service of Germany, about 300,000 men were mobilized in the fall of 2022, some of them are still being trained, some have already been sent to the battlefield. However, Russia may not stop there.

Russia's mobilization potential is a reserve of up to a million people, if the Kremlin deems it necessary," he said.

That said, Kal said Russian President Vladimir Putin is not ready to negotiate.

He wants to win on the battlefield and realize as many advantages as possible to possibly dictate peace on his terms in the future," said Kahl.

At the same time, he noted that the war in many aspects has turned out to be quite different from what Moscow, as well as Kyiv and the West, had envisaged. According to him, Russia initially thought it could gain control of the neighbouring country with little "precise military, rather symbolic and demonstrative, action". But Ukraine proved strong and fought back, giving Kyiv an advantage.

The Ukrainian army still manages to defend itself effectively against Russia's superior forces," the German intelligence chief pointed out.

He also warned that the situation on the front could change. As Russia sends more and more troops to Donbas in the hope of fully capturing the administrative territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The Kremlin is also strengthening its positions in the captured southern territories.

But Kahl stressed that Ukraine also has advantages in the support of allied countries and in the weapons they send to Ukraine.