{"id":131490,"date":"2022-10-01T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=131490"},"modified":"2022-10-01T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:58:10","slug":"russias-conscripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=131490","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Conscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-131491 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/russian-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/russian-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/russian-222x333.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/russian-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/russian.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Budte vse, kem vy mozhete byt!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spox report Russia&#8217;s invasion forces are in a defensive war against a determined Ukrainian military that continues to make advances along the entire front, from Kherson in the south to Kharkiv in the north.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian forces are slowly but surely liberating town after town along their twin axes of advance, including Kupyansk, home of one of the country\u2019s largest rail stations. From the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovy in the Kharkiv region is liberated.<br \/>\nOne of the largest railway stations in the east of Ukraine is located there. The occupiers used it in their supply route.<br \/>\nThe offensive in the Kharkiv region continues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian troops conscripted through Vlad&#8217;s recent mobilization efforts are just now arriving on the frontlines to join the faltering invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Poetrooper instigated this one.<\/p>\n<h3>Russian conscripts with no training are already on the frontlines in Ukraine, Kyiv says, as MoD warns they are likely to suffer heavy casualties<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Russian conscripts are already on the frontlines in Ukraine, Kyiv&#8217;s generals say<\/li>\n<li>Mobilised civilians are replacing dead soldiers with no training, they added<\/li>\n<li>Putin gave an order allowing military to start conscripting soldiers last week<\/li>\n<li>British intelligence says draftees are likely to be deployed with &#8216;minimal preparation&#8217; and will &#8216;suffer a high attrition rate&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Drafted civilians are being used to plug holes in Russian units that have been mauled in more-than seven months of fighting, the Ukrainian general staff said, which will badly affect their morale, &#8216;psychological state&#8217; and combat performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile British intelligence said none of the tens of thousands of conscripts called up so far are likely to receive good training, as most of Russia&#8217;s instructors have been sent away to fight.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Ukraine continues to press its advance in the eastern Donbas region, with footage showing a massive artillery barrage on the town of\u00a0Zelena Dolyna.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Vladimir Putin last week gave the order to begin conscripting men into the Russian military after his army suffered heavy casualties in the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kyiv says some 57,000 Russian troops have died fighting in the war so far, while Western intelligence puts that figure lower &#8211; up to 25,000 dead and 60,000 wounded, according to an August estimate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russia claims to have lost around 6,000 men, but has officially called up 300,000 reservists &#8211; giving proof to the lie. Some reports have suggested the actual number being called up could be in excess of 1million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11250515\/Russian-conscripts-no-training-frontlines-Ukraine.html\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russians have been fleeing the country en masse since Putin&#8217;s call-up. Flights out of the country have been sold out for days, and long lines of Russians have waited on foot or in cars to leave the country. European countries found themselves divided on the issue of accepting people as refugees. Latvia&#8217;s Foreign Minister opined:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many of Russians who now flee Russia because of mobilisation were fine with killing Ukrainians, they did not protest then. It is not right to consider them as conscientious objectors. There are considerable security risks admitting them&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau questioned the effectiveness of Russian conscripts against a seasoned Ukrainian military, especially given the lackluster tactical performance of regular, presumably trained Russian troops earlier in the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt&#8217;s not a very promising move from the military point of view,\u201d Rau said on September 27 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington, D.C. \u201cI&#8217;m not a military analyst, but following common sense, it doesn&#8217;t seem a very good solution because if the Ukrainians managed to defeat well-trained and well-equipped Russian soldiers, what&#8217;s the chance that those that are worse \u2026 are going to prevail? I suppose it\u2019s rather unreasonable to expect a breakthrough as the result of a mobilization.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After this fails Putin will be backed further into his corner. He&#8217;s already rattling the nuclear saber, so now would be a great time to discuss Ukraine&#8217;s entry into NATO.<br \/>\n\/sarc<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budte vse, kem vy mozhete byt! 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