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Partial mobilization: Russia's admission of weakness

2022-09-21T19:14:43.855Z


STORY - While the human balance is tilting in favor of Ukraine, Moscow is playing escalation. 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


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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Source: lefigaro

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