Bloomberg’s interlocutors close to the Kremlin and the Russian Ministry of Defense noted that the Russian army is not receiving enough new soldiers to keep up with losses at the front.
Ukrainian forces now control 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk region. Bloomberg writes that after the opening of a new front in the Kursk region and increasing losses in Donbass, the Russian army is facing a greater shortage of soldiers. How are the Russians looking for people to repel the Ukrainian attack?
New mobilization
The situation could force Russia to consider a new move, two people told Bloomberg. One source said officials could call it a rotation to give troops on the front lines a break, while another said a new mobilization could be announced before the end of the year.
Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk region, which met little resistance, underscored the challenges the Kremlin faces in the war.
Bloomberg’s interlocutor noted that the scale of Russia’s losses makes it difficult to maintain the war strategy of the aggressor country, and that taking Kyiv and other cities is off the table, because Russia does not have enough people.
Lukashenko is trying to help
By order of Alexander Lukashenko, the Russians sent equipment from the existing Belarusian units, as the arsenals of the Belarusian army were also exhausted, wrote BelNovosti, citing a Belarusian source Ministry of Defence.
Russia turned to Belarus with a request to transfer some of the equipment after the successful action of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region, as it faces a severe lack of weapons both in this and in other areas.
This is not the first time that Belarusian military equipment has been transferred to Russia. In particular, in 2022, due to the heavy losses of Russian troops in Ukraine after the start of a large-scale invasion, Belarus handed over its arsenals at the request of Russia. Then T-72A tanks, ammunition, artillery and cargo were transferred from warehouses, the publication wrote.
If in 2022 Lukashenko transferred equipment to Russia from warehouses, now he is forced to provide equipment from active units. This indicates that the Belarusian arsenals are almost exhausted, BelNovosti notes.
Movement of troops
Russia withdrew a small part of its troops from the temporarily occupied areas of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, said Dmitry Likhovoy, a representative of the Tavria operational group of troops.
Source: korrespondent
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