The Russian president is attempting to lure new recruits - but it may not be enough after mass casualties and as ammunition runs low
Russians have been bombarded with adverts to join the military in Moscow, as they attempt to make up for the tens of thousands of casualties., said in July that nearly 50,000 Russian men had died in the war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, experts say pro-Kremlin military watchers and bloggers have become increasingly frustrated with strategic decisions made in the war and a lack of arms.On Sunday, the Russian blog Visioner’s Channel posted that Russia’s 205th brigade is coming up against “an alarming signal of crisis in the army and the country.”
“The main problem of the Russian Ministry of Defence is well known,” the blog said, in reference to its lack of ammunition. Roman Saponkov, a Russian military blogger with more than 70,000 subscribers, wrote on Friday: “The brigade commander and the chief of the reconnaissance battalion are sending our guys in without artillery support, without drones — poor guys are being killed in packs.”lack of ammunitionThe US think tank Institute for the Study of War said that bloggers had criticised Russia’s defence ministry for ignoring complaints from ultra nationalists over its operation in Kherson.
It said that the Russian ministry was facing “bureaucratic problems” and that “Russian ultranationalists were hopeful that the Russian military command would improve its management of the war effort after Wagner Group financierHeavy fighting has continued in the region over the past few days, with at least six people killed in Donetsk and Kherson. Ukraine was struck by 61 attacks on Monday, according to Ukrainian official Oleksandr Prokudin.
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