"They're building luxury hotels in Kiev while we don't have enough hands to concrete the front line"

General Michel Yakovleff, former NATO deputy chief of staff, was a guest of French news channel LCI to give his analysis of the Russian advance in recent days and the lack of Ukrainian resources to confront it.

"They are building expensive buildings in Kiev, the capital, and they are not digging trenches where they should be," the general stated.

"The exasperation, anger and indignation are starting to be felt among Ukrainian soldiers, it's coming out through social networks, they are asking: where are the trenches, where is the help?"

For the general, it is clear:

"They are denouncing corruption, maybe we paid for trenches that were not dug, that's also possible. It's not necessarily corruption, but just the choice to want to maintain a civilian economy, to keep making real estate in Kiev, because the country, in other respects, stays alive."

"You should mobilize all earth-moving and civil engineering workers to start digging trenches, and this should have been done a year ago."

(FVDV and FM for Tagtik/Source: LCI/Photo: Andrew 979 via Wikicommons under license Creative Commons CC BY 2.0.)

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