Losses for Russia: Putin relies on "secret mobilization"
Created: 08/23/2022, 11:51 am
By: Christian Stör
Russia has suffered heavy losses in the Ukraine war.
The shortage of personnel at the fronts is increasing.
“Clandestine mobilization”:
Russia must compensate losses.
Russia is silent:
the Kremlin has not released any figures on casualties in the Ukraine war.
Editor
's note: Some of the information on the Ukraine conflict comes from warring factions and cannot be directly checked independently.
Moscow - The severe losses in the Ukraine war make Russia difficult to create.
The long duration of the war also seems to have weakened the morale of the auxiliary troops from the separatist areas loyal to Moscow.
At least that is what the reports of the British secret service show.
As the Ministry of Defense announced in London on Monday (August 22), some commanders are now likely to promise their soldiers hefty financial incentives.
Individual associations are considered unreliable and would therefore not be entrusted with attacks.
Vladimir Putin has to compensate for the losses in the Ukraine war.
© Dmitri Lovetsky/dpa
News on the Ukraine war: "Clandestine mobilization" to compensate for losses
According to the British secret service, the fact that Russia continues to classify the war as a "military special operation" contributes to the personnel problems.
Without general mobilization, the state has no legal authority to force people into military service.
Thus, Russia is still dependent on auxiliary troops.
So far, Vladimir Putin has steadfastly refused to order the general mobilization, which is politically quite risky, in the war that has now lasted around six months.
So what else can the Russian authorities do?
Apparently, the Kremlin has been trying to launch a kind of "secret mobilization," as the
New York Times
writes, for some time.
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To make up for the lack of personnel, the Kremlin is relying on a combination of impoverished ethnic minorities, Ukrainians from the separatist areas, mercenaries and militarized units of the National Guard to wage the war.
It was also recently reported that prisoners in St. Petersburg had been offered freedom and money if they agreed to fight in Ukraine.
News on the Ukraine war: Russia is silent on casualties
At the end of March, Russia put the number of soldiers killed in the Ukraine war at 1,351.
Since then, the Kremlin has remained silent about its own losses.
Ukraine provides a daily update, with the latest estimate putting the total at around 45,000.
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