Russian President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilization of fighting-aged men portends a winter of violence in eastern Ukraine.
“It means we will face an acute stage of the war in the winter,” a senior Ukrainian government adviser told the Washington Examiner. “We will face the acute stage, probably in the end of January, middle of February. And it will be a lot of casualties on both sides.”
“It’s not simple mathematics in the sense [of saying] that the Russians just need more men to fill the gaps,” Czech Deputy Defense Minister Tomas Kopecny told the Washington Examiner. “The absolute majority of those who will be mobilized [will be] conscripted. It will mean that those will be light units because you cannot just make, out of civilians, heavy mechanized units, heavy mechanized brigades, let alone whole armies. ...
The Kremlin chief’s nuclear saber-rattling has served to curb Western military support for Ukraine, although President Joe Biden’s team has gradually increased the quantity and quality of weapons shipments as Ukrainian forces demonstrated their ability to repel the Russian attempt to seize Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Zelensky struck an optimistic note this week as Putin’s mobilization plans began to circulate in Russia.
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