Putin lacks troops for war with Ukraine and to protect the Russian Federation at the same time - the media
The continued operation of defense forces in Ukraine, which is already going on the third month, found a very serious problem for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which is that the Kremlin military machine has a number of restrictions. Atlantic Council writes about it. The media points out that the power of power and the alleged inexhaustibility of human resources and military equipment actually revealed a serious problem for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Russian troops have now proven to be dangerous and incapable of actually protecting even their own territory. The Kursk Operation of the Armed Forces, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hoped, had to press Putin, forcing the latter to transfer troops to the Inner Front. However, this did not happen - although the occupation forces of the Russian Federation continue to advance in eastern Ukraine, but the Kremlin head is now forced to choose between two options.
Journalists add that problems with the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces have shown for Moscow that it lacks human resources. Therefore, the Russian Federation actively raises the bar of rewards for those who want to recruit the Armed Forces despite the growth of the middle age "volunteers" from 40 to 50 years, and they have serious health problems.
Another testimony to the attempt to replenish human resources is to redirect the current military from other places of service and recent changes in legislation. The history of the referral of seafarers from the cruiser "Admiral Kuznetsov" as an infantry, as well as permission to involve in the service of persons who have the status of suspects are indicative.
The media emphasizes that the success of Ukrainian units in the Kursk regions, which used a number of miscalculations of the Russians, has caused considerable concern in Russian society.
However, the Russian dictator retains an unnaturally restrained reaction, although it is perfectly "aware of the shortcomings of its army", and therefore tries to reduce the importance of the Armed Forces in Kurshchyna and has not resorted to the creation of a propaganda picture about the uniting the country before "foreign invaders".
Journalists are convinced that Putin does not perceive the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region as a "provocation", although Roszma was instructed to diminish the importance of defense forces in the enemy and began to say that "the presence of the Armed Forces in Russia is now a new norm. " "This, of course, does not mean that the Russian army is on the verge of collapse.
On the contrary, Putin has recently published ambitious plans to further increase the number of his army to one and a half million soldiers, which will make it the second largest in the world after China. He can also declare The next mobilization round, if necessary, but it can potentially lead to internal riots and persuade thousands of young Russians to leave the country, "the Atlantic Council text reads.
The media emphasizes that Putin will have to look for a "large number of additional military" to compensate for the loss and realization of the main task in the war against Ukraine - to gradually bleed it in a cruel war on exhaustion. However, the latest data show that September has become the bloodiest month for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in terms of losses that the Kremlin offsets the advance on the front.
It is because of success in combat that Putin is convinced that his country is able to "absorb" losses on the battlefield and continue to fight. That is why, the media convinces, the Ukrainian authorities understand this "gloomy arithmetic" of the Russian dictator and dared to start an operation in Kursk region. After all, in Kiev, they are well aware that to remain "closed in the war for exhaustion" with its much larger enemy would be an "act of national suicide.
" Despite the skepticism and criticism of the expediency of such a defense forces, which was called a reckless adventure and a strategic mistake that could seriously weaken Ukraine's defense, it has a reverse side. After all, it allowed to refute "the dominant narrative about the inevitable victory of Russia.
" "It is important that the Ukrainian operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation also demonstrated: the overloaded army of Putin is much more vulnerable than the Kremlin would like us. Without sufficient reserves, in Moscow, they expect that Ukrainian troops themselves will leave the Kursk region because the necessary forces and under the influence of the situation on the front in the Donbass, " - the journalists state.
We will remind, on October 9 Foreign Policy wrote that the operation of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation can become the key of Ukraine to victory. She showed all the toothlessness of Russian nuclear threats of the Kremlin. However, despite a number of problems in the battlefield, in particular in eastern Ukraine, Kiev received a serious trump in its favor in the event of any negotiations with the Russian Federation.