Putin Spent Last Week Promising Victory — Moscow Spent It Holding Secret Funerals After the Bombing Near the Kremlin
Zelensky said internal Russian documents show plans for several hundred thousand more troops after staged elections and said Ukraine is preparing countermeasures.
- On Tuesday, Aug. 11, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that intelligence documents confirm the Kremlin plans a massive mobilization for this fall, timed to follow staged parliamentary elections.
- Staged parliamentary elections currently lack credible opposition after Russia's Supreme Court barred Yabloko, the only liberal, anti-war party, from participating in the vote.
- Putin plans an additional 'rapid mobilization' of several hundred thousand Russians by year-end, plus just as many more next year, supplementing military contract recruitment and reliance on North Korean troops.
- Ukraine is preparing to respond directly, with Zelensky assigning specific tasks to the Main Intelligence Directorate to maximally complicate Russia's mobilization plans.
- Russian contingent losses on Ukrainian territory amount to at least 30,000 people monthly, with 60% killed, forcing the Kremlin to seek new soldiers to prolong the war despite the challenge this poses to Europe.
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Putin Spent Last Week Promising Victory — Moscow Spent It Holding Secret Funerals After the Bombing Near the Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin spent much of last week promising “victory” in his war in Ukraine. Those claims ring increasingly hollow as more details emerge of secret funerals for one – and at one time reported as potentially two – of his top generals. Putin New Year’s Message. Image Credit: Russian Government. Vladimir Putin Russian President 2019. Image Credit: Kremlin. Those reported to have been killed were victims of what was a planned …
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