Moscow is seeking to recruit up to 400,000 professional soldiers - on a volunteer basis
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As the battle in Bakhmut continues to rage both the Ukrainian military and Russian military are making serious efforts to increase their military strength in order to come out victorious in Bakhmut and the war in general.
In a bid to achieve the above the Russian military have released a video seeking for more recruitment of professional soldiers to help in her offensive operations in Ukraine.
The Russian military has launched a video campaign to lure more professional soldiers to fight in Ukraine which challenges those interested to show they are "a real man" and swap what it casts as hum-drum civilian life for the battlefield.
The ad, set to stirring music, follows a report from British military intelligence and Russian media reports that suggest Moscow is seeking to recruit up to 400,000 professional soldiers - on a volunteer basis - to bolster its forces in Ukraine.
Russia, which says it is prosecuting what it calls "a special military operation," haven't disclosed the number of military personnel that have been killed since the inception of the war in Ukraine. Although the latest leak from the US military intelligence have reported that about 43,000, while the Ukrainian military personnel that have been killed is about 17,500. This to me isn't the actual figures of the war casualties.
The recent recruitment ad has been sent to various Russian social networking sites to enable what they described as "real men" recruitment to join the war.
The ad, which invites men to sign a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry for a salary starting at 204,000 roubles ($2,495) a month, shows a man in supermarket dressed in military uniform holding a heavy machine gun. He is then shown in the uniform of a security guard with the question:
"Is this the kind of defender you dreamt of becoming?"
After launching a partial mobilisation drive in September which prompted tens of thousands of Russian men to flee the country to avoid being drafted, the authorities are playing down the possibility of a second mobilisation call - despite a move to introduce electronic call up papers to clamp down on draft dodgers - and are seeking to recruit volunteers instead.
There have been posters calling for new recruits with inscription "Our profession is to protect our Motherland."
The posters, which say the army is looking for gunners, sappers, military medics, drivers and tank commanders, promise potential recruits "respect, an honourable profession and decent pay."
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The Russian Ministry of Defense released the figures in October of 11k Russia KIA, and by open source the figure is 16k, which is in line with the leaks you're here claiming are almost four times as great for Russians and then claim the leaks say the Ukrainians lost 17k when its been confirmed by the Pentagon that the leaks say:
And make note, they have a range, which coincides with open sources of the data at that time:
https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/02/17/close-to-15k-russians-killed-in-ukraine-since-start-of-invasion-identified-through-open-sources
No wonder there's no mention of the Ukrainian Leaks from the summer of 22, where it was revealed that by June last year, just 4 months into the operation they had almost 100k dead.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6fD3pBnjceiL/
Meanwhile Kivv is frantically trying to kill as many of their own as they can, while conscripting ethnic Russians as the majority, which is sensational as opposed to run of the mill events like the Russians increasing their recruitment, while passing of fake figures from the leaks. In Bakhmut the Russian Army has played mostly a supporting role to PMC Wagner, but sure, Russian Army needs 400k volunteers to take Bakhmut.