Russian military already faces infantry shortage, but situation is better than Ukraine's — Biletsky

Brigadier General Andrii Biletsky, commander of the Third Army Corps, made this statement during a television appearance, according to Ukrinform. “They [the Russians] are definitely better off with their infantry than we are; that’s a fact. At the same time, we can certainly say that over the past year, a shortage of infantry has, in fact, emerged among the Russians as well,” Biletsky said. In his view, simply increasing troop numbers will not solve the Russian army’s problems, since modern warfare depends to a large extent on the intelligence-fire loop. This primarily refers to reconnaissance and strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles and sensors. “In other words, the more infantry the Russians have, the more ‘two-hundreds’ there will be.