Why is russia mobilizing reserves and not active duty members? They say they have used only 2-2.5 lakh personnel till now and iirc Russian AF has a standing strength of nearly 1 million.
I wouldn't say military front is victory for round-1 to Ukraine, Russia without mobilization still controls 18% of Ukraine and they are well entrenched there. Good spirited fighting by Ukr but they are only propped up by NATO thanks in billions in arms/ammo, fuel and funds. Russia is fighting NATO essentially, where US is call shots and Ukr gets all the actionable intel from NATO. So I would give round-1 to Russia just for being more Chad on the battlefield with limited resources (even at great cost to themselves) and continuing to put enormous pressure militarily and on the economic front. Despite sanctions, constant dire predictions of economic collapse, Russia has done fine and they have plenty of cards on the table.
And only 6k or so Russians have been killed as per MoD. Go figure.
There was no point in mobilising for these meagre gains.
Nah, it takes more than bodies to fight a war. Ukraine also have reserve manpower. If they lose Odessa then good bye black sea access.
same reason India and china cant mobilize their 20 lakh troops on just one front line. They are needed elsewhere to fight their own battles , Russia is the biggest country on earth by a huge margin, they have plenty of conflict zones.
i doubt that timeline , according to Chechnya representatives Russia is going to start a new wave after spring, there wont be any offensive till then, Russia is stocking up since winter is almost upon them , barely 1 month before it snows like crazy. Spring ends at March. they would need lot of firepower to reach Odessa in few weeks after they open a new wave.
Afghanistan are calling themselves superpowers and invading other countries only to get their ass handed to them now are they.
I'm sure the Taliban can also launch strikes at a similar efficacy.
There will always be people like this trying to flee conscription in a big country.. Before mobilization, Russians used to have a laugh over videos of Ukranians trying to avoid conscription. NOW, it's Ukranians turn..
You mean Russians turn?
No, he means it's Ukrainians' turn to laugh at the Russian draft dodgers.
Every country has reserve formations, which can be moved to any front in a few weeks time, eg 1 strike corps which was earlier dedicated to Pak, after Galwan reorganized to position some elements in Ladakh. If their trained military which has been undergoing training and combat hasn't achieved whatever they wanted to, how well are these reservist who haven't seen combat for some time going to fare?
Nibbas they need to rest their active members on the frontline as well.
You take out those in combat and replace them with those who are serving members, well rested and who were training all this while looking at the shortcomings of their operations.
I don't know how "trained" these "reservists" are...only truths are outcomes on battlefield.
Ukraine according to their own MOD has 700,000 troops. Russia started this war with 135k troops when ukrain had 200k troops. They need more manpower , 100k reserves isnt going to cut it when entire nato is funding Ukraine
Source, WP/NYT/BBC wouldn't be pulling numbers out their ass if this was true
Ukrain mobalised 700k troops picture to picture same way russia is doing, only difrence is Westren PR and massive funding on information warfare, where were all this croc tears from couch potato's when ukrain closed its broders and downright dragged entire towns into the front-lines
