Rocket strokes in Ukraine Kremlin distracts Russians from mobilization scandals - ISW

Russian nationalists are still demanding personnel permutations in military-political leadership and declaring war in Ukraine. Military bloggers talk about losses among mobilized and criticize command for being thrown into battle without equipment, preparation and combat coordination. Analysts say that Russian media reported the death of five mobilized from Chelyabinsk. Many bloggers have stated that there should be more killed and wounded.

They cite as an example of the order of the commander of the 58th All-Military Army of the Southern Military District of Mikhail Zuska about the immediate transfer of mobilized servicemen of the 15th Regiment of the 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade from Moscow and the Moscow region to the front line in the area of ​​Svatov. The order came on October 2 or 3, so the recruits did not have time to get ready.

Near the front line, the Russians, being without communication, commanders and supply, came under heavy artillery fire. As a result, the relatives found half of the soldiers of the 15th regiment wounded in the Belgorod Regional Hospital, the other half is still on the front line. Military bloggers also reported that the coffins with the bodies of the dead were already brought to Chelyabinsk, Moscow and Yekaterinburg.

One war on October 13 complained that with such attitude to the mobilized by February 2023, 10 thousand of them would be injured, another 40,000 would be injured. So it is not surprising that many recruits prefer to be captured by Ukrainians. "The constancy of such complaints confirms the ISW evaluation that the mobilization campaign will not prepare enough capable Russian personnel to influence the course of the war in the short term," the Institute said.

Earlier in ISW ​​stated that missile strikes in Ukraine are not related to the appointment of Sergiy Surovikin with a new commander of a united group of Russian troops. For the Russian army, the abuse of civilians is a standard operational procedure. We will remind, the journalists were able to identify three out of five killed in the war against Ukraine Russian mobilized from the Chelyabinsk region.