Posted on 08/25/2022 4:10:08 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The town of Volosovo, near St Petersburg, is booming. Not the economy - it's the loudspeakers.
Like many towns in Russia, Volosovo has them installed on tall poles that line the main street. Traditionally they are used for playing patriotic music during national holidays. Now, though, they have a different purpose.
"Two volunteer artillery battalions are being formed. We invite men from 18 to 60 years old to join," the speakers blare out.
It's a message that's being repeated up and down this vast country. On social media, on TV and on billboards, men are being urged to sign short-term contracts with the military to fight in Ukraine.
In the face of significant losses in the conflict, the authorities have launched a recruitment drive for the Russian army.
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Russia does not give numbers, but Western officials say between 70,000 and 80,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since it launched its invasion six months ago.
In order to attract fresh recruits, the authorities are offering volunteers huge sums of money, plots of land and even premium places for their children in Russian schools.
Recruiters have even been visiting Russian prisons to sign up inmates, promising them freedom and money.
Investigative journalist Roman Dobrokhotov says the recruitment drive is a sign of desperation on the part of the authorities: "This is not the type of soldiers needed for a victorious war. The Kremlin still hopes that quantity can win over quality. That they can get these hundreds of thousands of desperate people with their debts and just throw them into the conflict zone."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
At least the Russians have cannon-fodder to draw from....
Ukraine has no more cannon-fodder.......
Sucks to be you ZelenskyyIdiot.
Is that war still going on? Let us know how it ends.
Sure thing.
‘Russia’s Destruction of the Ukraine Military’
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/19/russias-destruction-of-the-ukraine-military/
Again?
“Replenishing the cannon fodder.”
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If I’m following the news correctly, the Russians are largely recruiting “cannon shooters”. The Ukrainians are actually DRAFTING cannon fodder to be “trained” for two weeks and then INVOLUNTARILY sent to spend their service time in trenches under heavy, continuous artillery fire.
Game near over.
Winter is coming.
Really bad news for the Russians and their armor and over extended supply lines then.
You're not.
Two weeks of Ukrainian training is one week more than the Russian separatist cannon fodder get before they are sent out in a 1960's Soviet tank.
If only Ukraine had tanks....planes, artillery, attack helicopters, manpower, ammunition, supplies. Oh wait, my bad, they did, just got destroyed.
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They only need to ask one question! Why isn’t Putin and his oligarch kronies on the front line fighting the war?
That will tell u everything!
Seen ZelenskyyIdiot fighting on the front line?
Let’s ask Vogue......
So we’re supposed to accept some unsourced random table from some unknown blogger dude as proof?
Oh its sourced...and linked.
You just fail at either clicking it or ignoring it.
Probably both.
You are going on o trust the government run BBC when the UK is pushing hard for a war with Russia? What trusting, naive fool would trust that propaganda mill?.
Wait, are you trying to say that Russians don’t know how to fight in winter? Did they take in too many Somali refugees?
How many Americans are answering the call?
Just my observation but it looks as if the Russians are beginning a push towards Odessa, while bringing pressure to the Kharkiv region as well. A north/south squeeze play. A breakthrough in the south is a game ender.
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