Britain questions Russia’s ability to partially mobilize 300,000 reservists for the war in Ukraine. “Russia is likely to face logistical and administrative challenges even if it is just to muster the 300,000 soldiers,” the Defense Ministry said in London on Thursday.
The Russian military leadership will probably try to set up new units with the troops stationed there.
However, these have “probably not been combat-ready for months,” the Ministry of Defense in London said.
“Sign of Russian weakness”
The ministry considered the partial mobilization a sign of Russian weakness. “The move is effectively an admission that Russia has exhausted its stock of willing volunteers to fight in Ukraine,” the agency said.
The convocations are also likely very unpopular among the population, it said. Hoping to generate much-needed fighting power, President Vladimir Putin is taking “a significant political risk”.
Army strategist: ‘Partial mobilization takes time’
Military strategist Colonel Bernhard Gruber of the Austrian Armed Forces took over the same line on Wednesday. “It will take time,” Gruber is sure, as such a large partial mobilization is a very complex process. “Probably not all 300,000 men will be called at once, that would overload the system.”
On Wednesday, Putin ordered the partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists to fill staff shortages in the war of aggression against Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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