According to the General Staff of Ukraine, possible mass forced mobilization on the territory of Russia and occupied Ukraine is associated with the catastrophic losses of the Russian Federation at the front.
On Monday, Ukraine’s General Staff said Russia could soon launch a large-scale mobilization campaign to draft hundreds of thousands of new troops from both Russian territory and Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.
“In the near future, massive forced mobilization of the population is expected in the Russian Federation and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine due to the catastrophic losses of the occupiers,” says the report of the General Staff of Ukraine.
According to various estimates, during the Russian mobilization campaign, from 400 to 700 thousand people may be called up, reports the General Staff of Ukraine.
At the same time, according to the Ukrainian military, the number of Russians conscripted in Moscow and St. Petersburg will remain “minimal”, since a significant part of Russians will be recruited from regions located outside of these cities.
The statement by the Ukrainian General Staff came a few days after a senior Ukrainian military intelligence officer reported that there were 420,000 Russian troops on Ukrainian territory.
Reuters notes that the Ukrainian General Staff did not provide any evidence to support its assertion.
Both Russia and Ukraine do not disclose battlefield casualties.
Last month, The New York Times, citing unnamed US officials, reported that since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, about 500,000 Ukrainian and Russian troops have been killed or wounded on both sides in the war.
