The Russian leader allegedly consulted with military bloggers before ordering a partial mobilization of troops amid the Ukraine war late last year.
into launching a partial troop mobilization late last year, according to a new assessment by the Institute for the Study of War .
Ukraine's counteroffensive reportedly prompted Putin to order a decree of the partial mobilization of soldiers to the battlefield, the ISW, a U.S.-based think tank, wrote on Monday. "Ukraine's sweeping counteroffensive in Kharkiv Oblast between September 6 and September 11 likely shocked Putin into realizing that he needed to order an involuntary reserve call-up," the assessment reads."Putin declared partial mobilization shortly after the Ukrainian counteroffensives on September 21."
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