The Russian army does not have enough troops to achieve a strategic breakthrough in the Kharkiv direction, but they have made local progress. This was stated by the Commander of NATO's Allied Forces Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, CNN reports.

“They don't have the skills and capabilities to operate on the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to gain a strategic advantage. They are able to achieve local successes, and they have already done some of that,” the general said.

He believes that the Russians have improved logistics since the beginning of the invasion, but the quality of Russian troops has deteriorated.

“If you look at the quality of the troops, they still have a big problem with training the new troops to a better level than they had at first. Now they have more troops, but their quality is lower than the ones they started the conflict with. And this is because many of the officers who died at the beginning of the war are now unavailable to train younger troops. So I think that this is one of the problems that haunts them and that they have not solved,” the military said.

Cavoli added that he is in contact with his Ukrainian colleagues and is confident that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will hold the line at the front.