Military expert Ivan Kyrychevskyi of Defense Express said this on air on Espreso TV."We won’t see anything dramatic from the Russians on the front line this summer—they simply won’t have time. The fact that our troops are regaining positions in such intense directions as Sumy and Pokrovsk is because the Russian soldiers there have all been wiped out due to the effective actions of Ukraine’s Defense Forces. Clearly, the enemy will have to draw reserves from somewhere, and the discussion was about a grouping of 160,000 troops. If we compare that number to the 50,000 the enemy threw into the Sumy region and the 110,000 on Pokrovsk, the magic of big numbers suggests they should start raising their hands. But the reality is that the Russians won’t have time to muster anything significant," the Defense Express expert commented.Kyrychevskyi added that the enemy has far too many drones, and the drone factor—now a dominant aspect of modern warfare—prevents Ukraine’s forces from advancing as far as they would like. Ideally, he said, the goal should be not only to push Russians back from Sumy and Pokrovsk, but to move much deeper toward restoring Ukraine’s full territorial integrity.On March 31, Putin signed a decree for the spring conscription campaign: 160,000 Russians are set to join the army.It was also reported that in 2025, the Russian army plans to expand its forces by 150,000 personnel, equivalent to 15 motorized rifle divisions.