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President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia

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Re: President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia

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>Russia deploying another 200,000 troops It is a very hard task even to just deploy, let alone with any gain. In February after months and months of training Russia has deployed to Ukraine about that number of the best forces it had (like Kantemirovskaya tank division). We've seen how it went. The newly mobilized forces, even after 2-3 months of announced training, will be an order of magnitude worse with worse hardw…

While my opinion is nothing more than armchair general - I agree. The overwhelming evidence supports this, even before the incredible counter offensive. Even prior to the arrival of HIMARS, the decimation of Russian armour was astounding. And that was with weapons NATO infantry teams, the least specialist, most numerous bread and butter soldier force, are all trained on and supplied with. As it stands; the Ukranians…

> They'll start loading trains this week.

Already happening. https://t.co/Wklq8me5tq

Also keeping the mobilized in 2nd-3rd line defense makes little sense. The current units on the front must be tired, decimated and in need of either retiring back for some rest/recovery/replenisment.

Rusty soldiers will get sent right into first line with all their rusty weapons, and other stock they have to buy themselves if they wish to not bleed to death from simple wounds. https://t.co/JEAxSNOLer https://t.co/GBhRj0g3y3 https://t.co/JnlN5lq51G

Also all this mobilization is unexplicably happening at the start of fall/winter seasons. When/if Russians finally manage to ship most of the people to Ukraine, it will already be winter, and they'll be freezing to death in areas with no working infrastructure, just like during late winter/early autmn earlier this year.

I really don't get it. The leadership must be grasping at straws with very little regard for human life.

Re: President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia

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these people are reservist. They knew and already accepted that this could happen

You know what? The majority of men in Russia are reservists. You either served in the army or went through higher education and got away earning a leutenant rank along the way. In reality, the state will call in all men between 20 and 27, sparing Moscow residents for the time being.

no, there's a difference between being a reservist and having done military service

> In reality, the state will call in all men between 20 and 27

- source ?

- all men between 20 and 27 is only 300 000 ?

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