Posted on 01/14/2023 11:39:30 PM PST by dennisw
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis said Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "scrambling" to find more troops to fight in Ukraine despite Moscow recently claiming that its forces captured the city of Soledar.
Stavridis weighed in on reports that Russia is resorting to prisoners, the Wagner Group, reservists, and others to fight in Ukraine.
"Putin is really scrambling...to gain the manpower, he's going to the prisons, he's going to the homeless shelters, [and] he's taking people in their 50s and 60s," he said. "I'm in my early 60s, I don't think the U.S. Army is searching for me to send me into combat. But, Putin will take anything. It's a sign of how difficult this fight has become for him."
This week, Russia appeared to have hinted that another round of mobilization might take place to meet war demands in Ukraine. State Duma Deputy Viktor Sobolev announced on Friday that Russian reservists who are 30 and older and have no military experience will be trained after adopting a law that would change the call-up age for conscripts, Russian news agency URA.RU reported.
Last month, the Russian leader denied a new wave of mobilization, saying he found it unnecessary to do so.
However, Ukraine claims that Russia is still mobilizing troops, with the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces saying this past November that Moscow was mobilizing conscripts in the occupied city of Simferopol.
"I think Russia has to continue mobilization. They need more manpower in the fight, and they started at a massive deficit, so they are still—almost a year later— playing catch-up. The first big call-up seems to have stabilized their lines, if they want to make forward progress and take or retake territory from the Ukrainians, they will need more personnel," he said.
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Russia can mobilize more prisoners. Putin can go personably recruit them in prison and appeal to their patriotism. Or he can just dragoon them and ship them off to the front lines.
Hes using the war to get rud of useless eaters. What happens when he can’t find any more bodies?
LOL. What is the point of perpetually projecting the Ukrainian situation on Russia?
The Russian military admits and discharged 300,000 personnel ANNUALLY.
They can call a million fit reservists without a hassle.
Ukraine is in the 9th way of mobilization in the conditions where at least a third of the population fled abroad.
The stupid Rooskies are running out of jailbirds who will volunteer to fight. In order to get their criminal record expunged. Now Putin and his gangsters will have to dragoon prisoners and send them to Ukraine to fight, with no training.
You should volunteer for Ukraine. Mother Russia needs YOU!
I don’t know if that is true. It seems that the line we are being given perpetually is that we have him on thebrun and that it is only a little longer.
Loving it. Stupid worthless propaganda piece. Might just as well have quoted Zelensky himself.
looks like mother Russia might have to start rewarding mothers for multiple childbirths, again, just likre iin the good old Soviet days.
But Russia needs those 300,000.
No economy without them. That’s because they are trying to keep a peacetime economy, to the degree they can.
Russia has already lost a very great deal of manpower in 2022, at least 1.5 million younger men, mainly to emigration.
Ukraine however is fighting on different basis, one of total war. The economy is mainly on hold, a la Britain in WW2.
Welcome to every war ever.
It's heartbreaking how little a human life means to them. One of the RT propagandists recently said:
"Life is over-rated"
1,5 million is a hogwash. You can’t count every departure for immigrant. 300k is nothing for the economy, the number of unemployed in 20 times that.
Yes, human waves is how you fight with air superiority and 20 times the advantage in artillery.
That is why the Ukrainian casualties are about 260k, and BBC can’t confirm more that 10k Russian casualties, of them 3k are dubious claims.
the casualty rates are lower for Ukraine and higher for russia than you quote. Mark Milley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had them about the same a few months ago:
100,000 each
it’s higher now of course
putin is a known liar. he doesn’t want the russian people to know how many lives he wasted for his ego. but they will find out. truth comes out...
Milley’s sources are a combination of Ukrainian propaganda and what he have from limited access to the Ukrainian public records. He have no reliable sources on Russian issues at all.
here’s your source reporting what I just said from last Nov:
“The most senior US general estimates that around 100,000 Russian and 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured in the war in Ukraine.
Gen Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, also suggested that around 40,000 civilians had died after being caught up in the conflict....”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63580372
The only source where he could get the number of Russian casualties is Ukrainian propaganda. It doesn’t exist anywhere else.
LOL dead bodies can be counted
they are dying *in* Ukraine
LOL dead bodies can be counted
they are dying *in* Ukraine
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