As if Russia wasn't enough of a wreck already, fully mobilizing will simply send it spiraling into decline till it's on the same level as Brazil (at best). The enormous cost of taking so many people off the economy (perhaps permanently in the case of death) and converting civilian factories to arm them in a reasonable amount of time would be simply unbearable for the Russian economy and society. This is exctly what the US wants as it would further destabilize Russia and maybe even fragment it into several statelets. Remember in the partial mobilisation there was already alot of reluctance from ethnic minorities. Is there really no other way to lead this war to an acceptable outcome ? (for Russia, Ukraine is already finished as a state)
Russia got more than 3 million ukranian refugees (not counting annexed people), all of them slavs, russian speaking, probably even just russian ethnically speaking, so yeah, that point doesnt make sense.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine is having WWII tier losses that will affect the demography much. Ukraine has suffered a HUGE demographic hit, but this is due to people leaving the country, not KIAs.
Russia could also mobilize people and high end specialist and put them in military industries, they did that with some inmates.
This is just the localized counter attack equipped with M113's and handful of T72s I can only imagine what it's going to be for Russian forces when the real offensive begins likely at night because of better night equipment and thermals.
Actually seems like it was not a walk in a park, Wagner has published couple of videos of the later attacks, at least 10 tanks destroyed, there is also another interesting video by DPR taking 2 dozen prisioners after a failed attack.
So the anecdotical evidence could go either way ...
Massive explosion in Ternopil. Guessing they decided to go against targets currently undefended after the Ukranians moved the air defenses for the stunt in Bryansk
Close-up of the explosion in Khmelnytskyi.
I wonder, what happens if you attack an ammo dump that has thousand of DU shells? Would the area become poisoned?
