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Is this blatantly false propaganda also?
www.nytimes.com
This ratio has not allowed Ukraine to overcome Russia’s population and recruitment advantages. At current trends, Ukraine is losing a larger share of its smaller army.
There are currently more than 400,000 Russians facing about 250,000 Ukrainians on the front line, and the gap between the armies is growing, according to the military analyst familiar with Western assessments.
Russia has been able to rebuild and even expand its battered invasion force by tapping into a population that is four times larger than Ukraine’s, carrying out its first draft since World War II and enlisting felons and debtors. The government of Russia’s autocratic president, Vladimir V. Putin, is paying increasing bounties to new recruits, and recently began pressing people accused of crimes to enlist in exchange for dismissing charges.
These recruitment efforts brought Russia between 600 and 1,000 new fighters a day last year, according to Russian financial statistics. Kyiv matched this rate only briefly in that period.
North Korea also sent about 11,000 soldiers to aid Moscow’s forces in the Kursk region of southern Russia, where the Ukrainians captured territory last summer.
Mr. Zelensky’s need to contend with public opinion has led his government to delay an unpopular draft, and then left it struggling to enforce it. Some men have gone into hiding to evade conscription, or bribed draft officers to obtain an exemption. Ukraine’s tardy recruitment of convicts has produced a small fraction of fighters who had enlisted from Russian prisons.
The recruitment gap ultimately shapes the battlefield. Russia is losing more men. But every Ukrainian casualty edges the Kremlin closer to victory.
Is this blatantly false propaganda also?
Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War
Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.
What it means
Combining the estimates, with their caveats and shortcomings, analysts conclude that Russia loses slightly fewer than two soldiers to death and severe injury for every Ukrainian fighter who suffers the same fate.This ratio has not allowed Ukraine to overcome Russia’s population and recruitment advantages. At current trends, Ukraine is losing a larger share of its smaller army.
There are currently more than 400,000 Russians facing about 250,000 Ukrainians on the front line, and the gap between the armies is growing, according to the military analyst familiar with Western assessments.
Russia has been able to rebuild and even expand its battered invasion force by tapping into a population that is four times larger than Ukraine’s, carrying out its first draft since World War II and enlisting felons and debtors. The government of Russia’s autocratic president, Vladimir V. Putin, is paying increasing bounties to new recruits, and recently began pressing people accused of crimes to enlist in exchange for dismissing charges.
These recruitment efforts brought Russia between 600 and 1,000 new fighters a day last year, according to Russian financial statistics. Kyiv matched this rate only briefly in that period.
North Korea also sent about 11,000 soldiers to aid Moscow’s forces in the Kursk region of southern Russia, where the Ukrainians captured territory last summer.
Mr. Zelensky’s need to contend with public opinion has led his government to delay an unpopular draft, and then left it struggling to enforce it. Some men have gone into hiding to evade conscription, or bribed draft officers to obtain an exemption. Ukraine’s tardy recruitment of convicts has produced a small fraction of fighters who had enlisted from Russian prisons.
The recruitment gap ultimately shapes the battlefield. Russia is losing more men. But every Ukrainian casualty edges the Kremlin closer to victory.
