Ukrainian National Guard Reserve Major Oleksii Hetman stated this on Espreso TV.“As for the numbers. Putin said he could increase mobilization to 50,000-60,000 per month. So far, he hasn’t managed to do this. At the end of last year, it was an average of 35,000 people per month, and that was about as many as we were eliminating. Someone wrote that the Russians have additionally mobilized 150,000 people this year. And that looks terrible—150,000. But 150,000 over half a year is 25,000 per month. At the end of the year, it was 35,000,” he said.In Hetman’s opinion, the Russian forces have a negative mobilization/loss balance.“We continue to eliminate as many as before, which is about 35,000-40,000. You can check the General Staff’s reports. So far, their mobilization has dropped from an average of 35,000 to 25,000. That’s why Putin went around saying, ‘everything for the front, everything for victory, blah-blah-blah.’ This means things are bad. The facts speak for themselves. We can have different attitudes toward the facts, interpret them differently—that’s freedom of speech and our right. But to deny the facts is something else,” the expert concluded.