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> And are you aware, allmost no russian conscripts are involved in fighting? Actually I didn't know that, the reports from the beginning of the war stated othe
by benterix 2y ago
> And are you aware, allmost no russian conscripts are involved in fighting?
Actually I didn't know that, the reports from the beginning of the war stated otherwise. In any case, last time I read they said they managed to mobilize 300 000 people[0]. So what happened to them? It makes no sense to mobilize soldiers during the war and not send them to war.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization
- lukan 2y ago"the reports from the beginning of the war stated otherwise" Not the ones I read. "It makes no sense to mobilize soldiers during the war and not send them to war." They can guard other borders (russia has lots of them) and replace the professional soldiers there, who then can be send instead to Ukraine. And 140 000 of those 300 000 you cite seem to be Ukrainians. And they do have to fight indeed. But russia really avoided forcefully drafting ethnic russians and sending them into the war zone - the few times it did - it created too much unrest.