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This. I don't question Russias abillity to gather manpower.That’s just overcoming the challenge of arming them though. I question their ability to feed and resupply this surge of new troops. What the Ukrainians could possibly do is fight a retreat and let them overextend again, then hitting their resupply trains. That could be disastrous if the Russians get caught out with that many troops and no support
Actually supplying them during operations seems like another issue entirely.
They had years of building up for the invasion last year, and they utterly failed in the logistics department (among other failures).
Now after a year of taking a beating in a bloody war with huge equipment losses, they're going to support an invasion force that's about 2.5 times the size of the first one? I'm skeptical.
That doesn't mean they won't try, or that Ukraine shouldn't be careful, throwing 500K bodies into a war is bound to have some effect.
We'll see what happens i guess