Mission accomplished on the Kremlin side.
“The task of recruiting 300,000 people has been accomplished,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Vladimir Putin on Friday during an exchange broadcast on television.
According to the minister, 218,000 reservists are being trained in Russian military bases, 41,000 are deployed in military units fighting in Ukraine, and 41,000 others are still in training but already in the conflict zone.
Putin salutes the "patriotism" of his troops
Vladimir Putin praised in front of his minister "the patriotism" of the soldiers mobilized since September 21.
The arrival of these men, who were still civilians a few weeks ago, should make it possible to consolidate its lines against the Ukrainian army, which has made significant territorial gains in eastern and southern Ukraine since two months.
kyiv troops are also preparing to fight a fierce battle to retake the city of Kherson, which had 288,000 inhabitants before the start of the war.
The Russian occupation administration has sworn to make it a “fortress” to resist the Ukrainian offensive in this entire region, which the Kremlin claims should be annexed.
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