By announcing a "partial mobilization" to strengthen the Ukrainian front, Russia hopes to reverse a balance of power against its "special operation".
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu assured that this appeal would only concern 1% of the mobilized population, that is to say approximately 300,000 reservists aged 18 to 60 who already have military experience or a specific skill.
Students and conscripts, who will continue to serve on Russian territory, are not affected.
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The figure is supposed to impress the West without scaring Russian society too much.
But as of Wednesday, anti-mobilization demonstrations were reported in Russia.
For the West, this is an
“admission of failure”
for Putin.
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For the time being the conflict would oppose approximately 170,000 Russians to some 200,000 Ukrainians, according to the estimate of a military source.
The numbers fluctuate.
But Ukrainian mobilization and commitment are tipping the human balance in their favour...
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