As the war in Ukraine drags on, Putin’s military commanders urgently need more troops but Russian officials are wary of public anger, according to leaked documents.
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Russia has not publicly disclosed how many soldiers it has sent to Ukraine or lost there. But the various estimates indicate that about half of the roughly 500,000 troops deployed or conscripted in the past 15 months remain available. Russia, however, has failed to make any significant territorial gains since last summer and clearly needs more fighters to achieve Putin’s goal of seizing four southeast Ukrainian regions.
“Perceived political reluctance to order further mobilization to replenish the Russian military’s losses in Ukraine are driving senior officials to consider less centralized strategies to deal with personnel shortages,” reads the document,Since then, the Russian government has indeed undertaken a huge decentralized recruitment effort, including regional campaigns launched this month urging men to pursue military careers as contract soldiers, and slick television ads released last week...
Russia’s near-term goal appears to be to enlist 415,000 contract soldiers, of whom “300,000 would serve as reserves and 115,000 would form new units or replenish undermanned units based on current estimates that Russian forces in Ukraine had deficits of 50,000 combat troops and 40,000 reserve troops,” the document stated.
In the sleek, new television ads released last week, the military urges “real men” to prove themselves by joining the war in Ukraine. The 45-second clip, color-graded in deep-blue tones, was edited to look like a movie trailer and features three bored-looking Russian men portrayed as unhappy in allegedly mundane jobs: taxi driver, store guard and fitness trainer.“Is this the defender you’ve dreamed of becoming?” the ad asks as it cuts to the guard posted by the turnstile of a grocery shop.
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