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RIGA, Latvia — Russian officials are scrambling to enlist hundreds of thousands more troops for the war in Ukraine without angering the general public, but recruitment plans being pushed by military leaders are raising alarm among other government officials worried about an increasingly critical labor shortage in the civilian workforce, according to classified U.S. intelligence documents obtained by The Washington Post.
In mid-February, President Vladimir Putin “reportedly backed” his military’s proposal to “quietly recruit” 400,000 additional troops throughout 2023 for the war in Ukraine, according to one intelligence document, part of a trove of classified information allegedly leaked on the Discord gaming platform by Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the National Guard.

The document, categorized as a CIA daily intelligence update, indicates the information was based on a “signals intelligence report,” meaning it was acquired by intercepting or eavesdropping on communications of Russian military officials.
According to Western intelligence estimates, Russia started its invasion in February 2022 with a force of around 150,000. A “partial mobilization” last fall conscripted more than 300,000, and another 50,000 were believed to be fighting in Ukraine as part of the Wagner mercenary group, including convicts recruited from prison. There is also an unknown number of men forcibly conscripted in the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics to fight alongside pro-Russian separatists, and smaller volunteer units. According to the leaked documents, the United States estimates that Russia has suffered 189,500 to 223,000 casualties, with up to 43,000 killed.

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.

appropriatemetaphor posted:

Russia wanted to provide Europe with life-saving gas but the evil USA blew up the pipes. Who's the real enemy enemy? Who's really at fault for millions freezing to death in Europe?

The USA lied about blowing up the pipes, what else are they lying about? Biolabs are real and all Ukrainians love post punk.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

What internet shitholes are you guys burrowing into that you feel the need to constantly mock all these dumbass positions that nobody here is taking?

Who cares what some hypothetical people that are not posting here might say in any given situation?

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/herszenhorn/status/1651939735273721856

Turns out it's not so easy to sell a war to your population if they keep needing to find more people to keep the war going, who knew?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

For a 1000KM wife front.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

What internet shitholes are you guys burrowing into that you feel the need to constantly mock all these dumbass positions that nobody here is taking?

Who cares what some hypothetical people that are not posting here might say in any given situation?

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

For a 1000KM wife front.

Rust Martialis posted:

zone posted:

loving assholes.

Toxic Mental posted:

Owling Howl posted:

Failed analogy. Assholes are necesarry, useful and inherently anti-imperialist.

zone posted:

Terrorist Strelkov confirmed this in one of his recent videos, saying that Russia has a force dispersion of ~250-300 mobiks per km of the front. In the same video he was urgently begging Shoigu, Gerasimov, anyone he could think of, to immediately beg, borrow, or steal 400,000+ mobiks from wherever if they wanted even a hope of holding their territory.

Tunicate posted:

Nah, assholes are colonizers

mobby_6kl posted:

Sometimes you have to be a dick to gently caress the rear end in a top hat

Dr. Quarex posted:

drat I mean it is amazing but it is some stone-cold excellent response to shut down an entire base and suspend the people in charge in response to "actually the stuff he leaked didn't matter and nobody cares"

Pekinduck posted:

I give the Air Force credit for apparently addressing the failures that led to this guy having access to these documents. Organizations often just try to put it all on the perpetrator rather than investigating why a single screwball could do so much damage.

PC LOAD LETTER posted:

Alright thanks for the info.

Sounds like AI has got a few assholes in key spots screwing things up here there but probably aren't all bad as a org.

edit new page: looks like the Ukrainians are now starting to post vids of using JDAM-ER's in Bakhmut. Big explosions but no bodies so NSFW applies

Supposedly they're blowing up ammo dumps with these things there now.

weg posted:

Ukraine War: Russia men depleted, now a 1000KM wife front.

Owling Howl posted:

Assholes are ... inherently anti-imperialist.

Tai posted:

Kinda confused why russia isn't saving it's missiles for the counter attack. I know they love to war crime it up but this makes no sense.

Rust Martialis posted:

Barry Bluejeans posted:

Yeah man Joker Quotes inspire me too