In an escalation of what Moscow calls its military operation in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has announced “partial” mobilisation in Russia.
“I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Defence Ministry and of the General Staff to conduct partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation,” Putin said during a televised address to the nation on Wednesday.
The Russian leader said he had signed a decree on the partial mobilisation, which is due to start on Wednesday.
“We are talking about partial mobilisation, that is, only citizens who are currently in the reserve will be subject to conscription, and above all, those who served in the armed forces have a certain military specialty and relevant experience,” he added.
Putin’s address to the nation came a day after Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to hold votes on becoming integral parts of Russia as the conflict reaches nearly seven months.
Putin added that Russia will use all available means to protect its territory, accusing the West of seeking to “destroy” the country.
“When the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia and our people. This is not a bluff,” he said.
[beware of western propaganda]
I’ve heard it’s about 300,000 soldiers, something like 1% of Russia’s total mobilization potential.
edit: saw you already put that in (one of the sources). Am an idiot.
I saw those figures too and not sure how they arrived at them. The total potential is pretty much every single working age male in Russia. Doesn’t seem like a very good metric lol, I would hope they don’t need to conscript every single person in Russia to fight a war.
If the actual number is really 300K soldiers then I think it’s time for game over in Ukraine. They tried to denazify it peacefully, But sadly it won’t work that way and they’ve finally realized that.