Russian Army recruitment advert
Guy Faulconbridge – Reuters Oct 3, 2023
Russia has no plans for an additional mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine as more than 335,000 have signed up so far this year to fight in the armed forces or voluntary units, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
Russia has been bolstering its armed forces and ramping up weapons production in the expectation of a long war in Ukraine, where front lines have barely shifted for a year.
“There are no plans for an additional mobilisation,” Shoigu was shown telling top generals on state television. “The armed forces have the necessary number of military personnel to conduct the special military operation.”
Shoigu, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, hailed the patriotism of those who had signed up.
“Since the start of the year, more than 335,000 people have entered military service under contract and in volunteer formations,” Shoigu said. “In September alone, more than 50,000 citizens signed contracts.”
Those figures indicate that Russia has made significant progress both in signing recruits and in absorbing many fighters from the Wagner mercenary force into “voluntary formations”.
Putin ordered a “partial mobilisation” of 300,000 reservists in September last year, prompting hundreds of thousands of young men to flee Russia to avoid being sent to fight.
Putin has repeatedly said there is no need to repeat the mobilisation, which some Russian officials say was a mistake as it prompted so many to leave.
Long War?
A man studies a leaflet given by young woman helping promote Russian Army recruitment in Moscow. Click to enlarge
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 unleashed a war that has devastated swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine, killed or injured hundreds of thousands of men and triggered the biggest rupture in Russia’s ties with the West for six decades.
Putin says he is fighting a Western alliance waging a proxy war to diminish Russia politically and militarily, while Western leaders say their economic sanctions and their military backing for Ukraine are a direct response to Moscow’s aggression.
But the future course of the war is uncertain, despite predictions by U.S. officials earlier this year that Russia’s defeat on the battlefields of Ukraine would pierce Putin’s hubris.
While Ukraine was able to win back territory last year from Russia in attacks which humiliated the Russian armed forces, this year has been different.
In the month to Sept. 26, Russia took 31 square miles while Ukraine took 16 square miles, according to the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.
The declared war aims of both sides appear ambitious: Ukraine says it will eject every last Russian soldier from Ukraine while Russia says it will demilitarise Ukraine.
Mark Milley, who retired last month as U.S. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told CNN last month that the fight would be long, hard and bloody as Russia had well over 200,000 men in Ukraine.
“What I said months ago was it’s going to be long, hard, bloody because the nature of this particular fight and the type of defense that the Russians put in,” Milley said.
Milley said that the Ukrainian aim to kick all the Russians out of Ukraine would “take a long time. That’s going to be very significant effort over a considerable amount of time.”
“I can tell you that it will take a considerable length of time to militarily eject all 200,000-plus Russian troops out of Russian-occupied Ukraine. That’s a very high bar. It’s going to take a long time to do it,” Milley said.
While the Kremlin expects the United States to continue to support Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in security assistance, Putin is betting on Western fatigue over the war.
“We have repeatedly said before that according to our forecasts fatigue from this conflict, fatigue from the completely absurd sponsorship of the Kyiv regime, will grow in various countries, including the United States,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Mark Trevelyan, Kevin Liffey and Nick Macfie)
Russia is accepting recruits from all over the world to fight the rothschild octopuss
this is a replay of when Germany was attacked by rothschild and the jews
recruits came from all over the world to help Germany survive
“Russias full-scale invasion”? Err, and this bunch couldn’t get it right.
‘Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Mark Trevelyan, Kevin Liffey and Nick Macfie’
Let’s remember, the majority of Russian forces in UKraine, or waiting to enter UKraine, have not come from regular Russian military deployments which protect Russian borders.
There’s about 250k in UKraine, 250/300k waiting to enter UKraine, and they’ve raised another 300k. That 250k number is a mixture of Wagner, Chechens, and some regular Russian military, not forgetting the Russian speaking military (once UKrainians) who were fighting the UKrainian Nazis in Eastern UKraine since 2014. Most of the regular Russian army hasn’t been used in UKraine.
These little details must really piss off the NATO Nazis.
That’s three times the size of the British Army and with more balls than the American Army. I mean that in a literal sense, since they’ve been transitioned into sexual freaks.
Let me explain the putin/zelensky Chabad Ukraine war for Ag lands in 3 parts, then discuss:
Rabbi Schneerson, Rabbi Schneerson, Rabbi Schneerson.
Russia is preparing for expansion of the SMO into the European theater. They prefer to bring the same misery to the European Moloch worshippers and Nazis in NATO and the UK on their own soils .. While Europe depletes it’s arsenals they started production of the improved T80 BVM because of its performance in the Northern territories and the mobility of the improved multi fuel gasturbine. Despite the Great Looking General Milley, remember he is just a deep state general who’s taken out now .. It’s Europe that becomes the next battlefield not Amerika.
Z for zion/zelensky .
Yes, Putin could end it if he wanted. Instead, it is a “continued resolution” of mighty hurls of lucre that have never benefited ANYONE but the arms makers. It is a strategy just like Ali’s
“rope a dope”, while the wolf in sheep’s clothing conscripts every warm body he can to maintain
appearance, all the financial allies punch themselves out (and they are).
Great balls of false flag fire, it was brilliant when Ali did it, and it is working for Putin, but Foreman didn’t have a national credit card with no limit on it, or a rubber stamp congress.
Notice the Commies have the Z patch on their uniform. What they don’t tell you is that ‘Z’ stands for ZOG. A little Jew-Bolshevik inside joke mocking the gentile dum dums…
I’ve just been listening to Scott Ritter. Here’s the link, you really should listen to what he says, mind blowing stuff.
https://youtu.be/pazVED4ad4g?si=OTCLDinZuw1lF67R
Ritter isn’t saying it, but he sure makes a very sound case that the WW2 German Nazis weren’t the only Nazis, and in fact the West has been a Nazi enterprise, at least from 1912 when they started training Hitler in Tavistock.
I knew a lot of Russians died in the 1990s but not 10 to 20 million?!
I now fear for Ritter’s life. And you know what nuclear war seems all the more certain.
Today, the EU announced talks on UKraine’s EU membership. You know why? It’s not just the fact they are all Nazis, is the fact that any and every Nazi must get as deeply involved in covering up all the wounded Nazis who were shot by their own buddies, because a wounded Nazi is no good to anyone.
With the EU announcing talks on UKrainian EU membership, maybe the Russians will have no choice but to take the entire country, thus expelling countless millions into the EU.
Given that UKraine will be depopulated, millions of Chinese should be invited to settle in UKraine. Such a move would be good for the Russians who live in UKraine, and good for China, as they can buy the grain and food produced by UKraine. Maybe China could set up a naval base in Odessa? Millions of Chinese could be holidaying on the Black Sea coast.
So, what is happening behind the lines in the Russian-occupied territories? Are there still people living in the towns? Are they mostly Russian speaking? Are there any Ukrainians left? Are they being persecuted, liberated, moved out, or what? Is there a resistance movement in those areas to the Russians? Are the Ukrainian forces near the front bombarding the people in the occupied areas with missiles and drones to cause havoc? Have the Russians laid down any peace conditions for the Ukrainian minorities in the Russian-held territories? Who is supplying the people if there are any left with food and necessities? Like what the hell is really going on? Like – how contrived is this war? What is its real purpose? One thing is certain and that apart from a few battles we are not really being told dick about it.
Z stands “Za pobedu” – for victory.
Carl Schmuck Jones always begins his desk job shift at Thames House at 9am. He’s usually finished cut and pasting his nonsense by half ten and goes for a long breakfast in that nice cafe in Horseferry Road. Check his posting times …
He’d love to be out doing surveillance with the big boys but they all rip the piss out of him for being such a mug. At least he gets a nice fry up every day.
@CARL JONES
are you an israeli-Rothschild-China shill ?
Carl Jones–what’s wrong with Nazis?