Good ole Mi-6...Ukraine’s channel to the West. They provide intelligence to Ukraine’s Office of the President on a daily basis and I have to say they are usually right. They apparently have good Russian sources or they are just great guessers...:-)
But, their latest missive is surprising.
“Our source in the OP has said that the General Staff has requested urgent preparation of additional mobilization of Ukrainians into the ranks of the Armed Forces based on MI-6 intelligence. British intelligence has information that the Russian army is preparing a half-million-strong force for a campaign in Ukraine.”
https://t.me/rezident_ua/14649
Russia clearly is planning an offensive campaign. Large number of additional drones (supposedly including Iran’s new Ashraf-2 drone which was developed specifically for Israel large cities) and two types of Iranian missiles.
Also launching multiple military satellites (3 in one week.)
Now you know why President Trump started https://www.spaceforce.mil/
BTW, Oct. 1, 2022, The Space Development Agency, responsible for rapid delivery of space-based capabilities to the joint warfighter, transferred to the U.S. Space Force as part of a planned realignment mandated by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act.
not to mention the big build up in Belarus on the border with a large number of Russian troops, very close to Kiev, lots of foreigners leaving Kiev now.
Clearly the Russians are planning a very large offensive. But if the reports of the mobilization are even remotely close to the truth, how good will it be? The first 17 months of Russia’s involvement in WW2 saw millions of men, and vast quantities of material, squandered in repeated attacks where conglomerations of men, who were in no real sense military units, much less competent military units capable of acting together in combined arms operations, were rushed into battle and destroyed piecemeal, because Stalin ordered it so.
An under appreciated aspect of Stalingrad is that it succeed because Stalin finally allowed the Red Army to assemble an operationally significant force, with at least a modicum of training, and logistical support, and then allowed the Red Army to attack where and when it wanted to. If Stalin had followed his old habits, and dribbled these forces into Stalingrad and Rzhev a little at time, untrained, and partially equipped, Paulus and the Sixth Army would have been defeated, but not encircled and eradicated.
How big of a hurry is Putin in?