The British GCHQ intelligence agency judges Russia is gradually running out of weapons and military campaigns in Ukraine.
We believe that Russia is lacking ammunition and certainly lacks friends, Jeremy Fleming, Director of GCHQ, his top intelligence agency, said in the Today's BBC Radio 4 program today.
The statement of mobilizing troops also showed that they were lacking forces.
However, Mr. Fleming did not cite his claims.
When asked if the Kremlin was really desperate in the context of President Vladimir Putin's military campaign in Ukraine witnessed many steps backwards, Mr. Fleming said that it could be seen that despair at many levels inside Russia and Russia and
Military media was destroyed outside the city of Lyman in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine on October 5.
Mr. Fleming's comments came after Russia on October 10 launched a series of raids in Ukraine, including Kiev, which killed at least 19 people and damaged many infrastructure.
As we saw in the horrific attacks yesterday, Russia still had a capable military machine.
Rocket raids into Ukraine took place after Putin's statement last month, in which he warned of the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons if territorial integrity was threatened.
I think any mention of nuclear weapons is very dangerous and we need to be careful about how we talk about it, Fleming answered when asked about Russian nuclear threat.
Russia - Ukraine conflicts have escalated in recent weeks after a series of tense moves, as Moscow announced the merger of four areas in Ukraine, Mr. Putin issued an order to encourage 300,000 troops and Kerch bridge on the Crimea peninsula.
President Putin warned that the country would have a very fierce reaction and the corresponding scale of threats against Russia.
Ukraine cities were ambushed by Russia on October 10.
Increasing missile ambushes into Ukrainian cities, Russia seemed to want to divide the fire for the Eastern Front, forcing Kiev to decrease the counterattack.
After Russia rained missiles to Ukraine, the question of what to do to the West was to do to increase support for Kiev to deal with Moscow's escalation.