What ways does Putin use to recruit soldiers? |

Source: The Telegraph

Translation: Innovator

Great Britain’s “The Telegraph” newspaper “Putin After mass casualties in Ukraine soldier raids prisons to collect” was published. The author of the article is Tom Riis, an employee of the newspaper. We present the English translation of the article.

At a time when the Kremlin is struggling to maintain troops after losing tens of thousands of troops in Ukraine the president Vladimir Putin from prisons and the poorest regions of Russia to the army soldier collects

Western officials believe that the regime is in the army because it is not sure that Russia’s major cities will support mass mobilization soldier resorting to more and more desperate methods to regulate the number.

According to officials, Russia the military is very active among the poorest strata of the country, recruits prisoners in prisons to the army for wages. Also, conditions are created for elderly people to join the army.

Informed sources say that the authorities kept large cities out of the mercenary recruitment process because of the low level of support for the war in such cities.

Russia today Ministry of Defence also announced that the losses in Ukraine have forced Moscow to use unconventional forms of paid service. It also means acknowledging the problems in the mercenary sector.

Informed sources note that the prisoners serving time in prisons are the unofficial mercenaries of Russia military joining the “Wagner” group is also a part of this process.

If what has been said is true, then it becomes clear that Russia is struggling to replace the losses in the army.

One of the Western officials says: “It seems that they are really trying to increase the number of people who pull the trigger, but on the other hand, they are not calling for an actual mass take up arms, they are avoiding such calls. Because they know that the people of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and other cities are not ready for this.”

Unsuccessful battles thinned the ranks of Russian troops. Ukraine the military outdated they claim that the Russian troops, who were equipped with weapons and trained for only a few days before being sent into battle, have so far suffered about 40,000 casualties. According to Western estimates, the number of casualties is less than this, but still tens of thousands.

Russia As for the heaviest blow to the economy of the country, when the oil embargo type sanctions will come into force, i.e. in the fall, the officials say that in fact the West itself does not have such an expectation.

Since the beginning of the war, there have been rumors about the announcement of mobilization in Russia, but despite all the efforts to strengthen the army, Putin able to curb the desire to send the civilian population into battle en masse.

Big last month Britain intelligence calculated that 55 percent of Russian-backed separatist forces in Donetsk were destroyed and assessed the losses in Donbas as a whole as an emergency.

It is reported that the morale in the Russian army is low and new recruits are trained for only 3-7 days before the battle.

of Britain Ministry of Defence notes that, most likely, one of the reasons that hinders Russia’s progress in Ukraine is the thinning of the ranks of the troops.

The statement of the Ministry emphasizes that there are no planned breaks in the conditions of intense fighting Russia It is one of the most serious, most difficult of the countless personnel problems that the Ministry of Defense is trying to solve in relation to the forces it deploys in the war zone.

When the Kremlin began to attack of Ukraine he thought he would capture the main cities in a few days. However, Russia is provided by the West with financial and ammunition Ukraine faced stiff resistance from his army.

In a row military Failures Kremlin repeated his efforts of Ukraine forced to direct to the east. But despite capturing Lugansk, Russia is making slow progress.