Summary
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 160,000 more Russians aged 18–30 be drafted from April 1 to July 15, amid U.S.-brokered ceasefire talks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the Kremlin is preparing a major offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, accusing Russia of stalling negotiations to gain territorial leverage.
Over 100,000 Russian soldiers are confirmed dead. Ukraine reported 46,000 dead and 380,000 wounded.
The last round of conscription was meet with uncharacteristically loud pushback from the russian public so pushing ahead with even more is interesting. Is the kremlin that confident in the effect of it’s propaganda? or is it just that desperate?
The pushback was for the mobilisation, while this is a start of a routine conscription event, these happen twice every year
effect of its* propaganda
Vlad should call his MAGA supporters to join his cause and it will fulfill their need for violence.
From what I’ve seen on the reddit right-leaning subs most of them are very against the entire war and sending money/troops at all.
Russia isn’t going to have any young men left.
That’s a problem because?
Take a look around, it would seem they have plenty in America to draw from.
How many will be oligarchs sons?
Or even any from large cities?
BYOB - System of a Down
Are they going to be equipped like the Russian soldiers in late WWII? One soldier gets a rifle, the other gets five bullets, and both get helmets the thickness of tin cans.
Russian soldiers in late WW2 were typically very well equipped, as were most soldiers by that stage in the war (even German soldiers were pretty decently equipped late war, though mostly due to having almost no soldiers left to equip).
Late summer 1941 and even at points during Stalingrad, sure there were definitely times when soviet soldiers were being thrown into battle massively underequipped, but this was the exception rather than the rule.
By 1944 (even by 1943) the Red Army was more mechanised than the Wehrmacht and was better at Blitzkrieg than the Wehr ever were.
Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war… for nothing.
As we all know, repeatedly drafting several divisions worth of men is a sign you’re winning the war…
Territorially? Yes, Russia is winning. But politically, economically and socially? Russia already lost. The deaths of thousands of soldiers in the face of Russia’s demographic crisis will result fewer labour force, which means lower tax revenue. The Russian economy is in war footing and this is already causing inflation because of heightened government expenditure, and businesses struggling to pay the ever increasing wage demands of civilians at home, who replaced the jobs that would have been filled instead by soldiers from the front. With secondary sanctions, even Chinese banks are reluctant to lend to Russia. The future generations of Russians will be paying for the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine. In essence, Russia may be winning territorially, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory with generational consequences.
You are right and coming out of that war footing when all the bill are due? Diaster
They still only have 20 percent of the country. After years. At this rate they will run out of people before Ukraine runs out of territory.
more fertilizer for the ukrainian soil
Oh, look. Russian “brain drain” heading to Russias southern borders.
More like blood drain, their brains are probably in atrophy.
Generational alcohol abuse will do that.
I can hear this image.
Conscript reporting.
I have a friend who insists he can defeat any animal in a fight as long as he has enough size advantage and lay on the animal and pin it down. He has apparently never seen a cat, much less a chimp.
I fought my mom’s mountain lion when I was in my early 20s. Had 20-30 pounds on that bitch. She hated men in hats for some reason no one ever figured out. Teased her a bit, looking her in the eye, on my knees on the living room floor, with a straw cowboy hat on.
All I saw was a tawny blur, ended up on my back with my long hair coming out in hanks. The cat ended up with my hat. Along with more of my hair.
I no longer have illusions against my chances vs. a possum.
It’s not that she didn’t like men in hats, she just preferred Men Without Hats.
I think you could take an opossum. They generally forget they can bite while hissing. A puma on the other hand…
This makes me think of my nephew who is convinced that a dog like a Cane Corso or Kangal can take on a bear 1v1.
dog like a Cane Corso or Kangal can take on a bear 1v1.
In Silverfang maybe, but not in real life.
Love this for the Russians. Maybe they’ll wake up and take this boot off their necks one day
on the bright side the Russian meatgrinder companies should see increased sales
I wonder if Krasnov will keep barking or biting his master with those tariffs on Oil…
Hopefully this pisses Trump off. Take some of your threats Donny and lob them at Russia.
