They are trying to somehow maintain the balance of losses: will Putin decide to mobilize after the elections?

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During the “direct line” on December 14, Vladimir Putin said that the Russian army has enough military personnel. Therefore, they say, there is no need for a second wave of mobilization.

However, in reality, the occupiers are suffering enormous losses in Ukraine. Therefore, the aggressor country will be forced to declare mobilization in any case, he said 24 Channelex-SBU employee Ivan Stupak.

“I am sure that one way or another there will be mobilization. Maybe not universal, but perhaps “additional partial” , “there will be a partial mobilization No. 2” after the presidential elections,” Stupak noted.

The occupiers are trying to hold out before the elections in Russia

Now the enemy is trying to compensate for its manpower by recruiting people from all over the world. As is known, Ukrainian hackers received 199 passports of Cuban mercenaries. They agreed to fight against Ukraine not even for money – for the opportunity to live in Russia or obtain citizenship.

In addition, Russia is recruiting citizens of Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan .

This is all being done to somehow maintain the balance of losses and the influx of new people into the Russian army, so that “jump on one leg to Putin’s campaign,” Stupak emphasized.

Russia needs soldiers, but is not recognized : latest news

• Vladimir Putin said that there are supposedly 617 thousand military personnel currently fighting in Ukraine. The dictator voiced this and other nonsense during the “direct line” on December 14.
• Ukrainian intelligence representative Andrei Chernyak denied the dictator’s statement. According to him, today the Russian army in Ukraine numbers 443 thousand soldiers.
• Moreover, there are fewer of them every day. Thus, in one day on December 14, the Ukrainian military destroyed more than a thousand invaders. In general, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, almost 344 thousand invaders went to the “Kobzon concert”.