War in Ukraine, Gerasimov’s admission: the mechanism did not work

War in Ukraine, while the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov is reorganizing the armed forces, he also makes an unexpected confession: the partial mobilization decreed by Putin did not work. Gerasimov anticipates, in an interview with Argumenty i Fakty, a massive restructuring of forces based on the formation of new military districts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in response to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. In addition, three large motorized infantry military units based in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions will be established. And a corps will be deployed in Karelia, on the border with Finland.

After acknowledging that “modern Russia has never experienced a level and intensity of combat operations” like those underway in Ukraine, Gerasimov emphasized that “our country and its armed forces are effectively opposing the entire Collective West,” he explained. . The experience gained in Ukraine will be taken into account when rebuilding the armed forces. Gerasimov admitted problems with the partial mobilization decreed by Putin last September. The mechanism did not work as it should have and was fixed along the way, he added. “There has never been such a mobilization since the Great Patriotic War.”