Is Russia preparing to carry out a new mobilization to alleviate its difficulties at the front and absorb its human losses? Intelligence and the Ukrainian executive are convinced of this, even openly evoking this danger in recent days. The Kremlin, however, said on Monday that this was not the case and that such a recruitment operation was not on the agenda.
As the US channel CNN reported here, it was the spokesman for the Russian presidency who was in charge of invalidating what he denounced as erroneous rumors, during a videoconference press conference.
“I am counting on the authorities headed by the president of the Russian Federation,” Dmitry Peskov slipped, after rejecting a new mobilization.
“One should not pay so much attention to what is being said about Telegram loops,” he added.
Ukrainians fear the arrival of 500,000 more Russians
If the spokesman thus criticized the rumors born according to him on the digital platform Telegram, the threat of a new mobilization has been pointed out mainly by the Ukrainian administration in recent days. As we mentioned a week ago, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov echoed this in a video message on December 31.
His statements were corroborated on Saturday with the American site. political by the intelligence services of your country, which have set the start of this additional recruitment for next January 15, estimating their objective in the recruitment of 500,000 combatants.
The failure of the first mobilization
Vladimir Putin had surprised and outraged the international community by announcing in a speech on September 21 a first “partial mobilization” of Russian reservists destined for the war in Ukraine. Decision that had been interpreted both as a hardening of the conflict and an admission of the difficulties of the invader on the ground.
Nothing came to officially close this campaign, but in the last days of October, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Choigou, had nevertheless assured that this wave of mobilization had come to an end, having fulfilled, according to him, its objective of placing 300,000 more. Russians under the flag.
This conscription policy, which spread the war to a larger part of Russian society, had mixed results, to say the least. Obviously he did not get the army out of the quagmire he got into, and he is frowned upon by public opinion. Thus, Vladimir Putin’s speech had caused an exodus of many Russians outside their borders, and recruitment offices had been the subject of riots.
Source: BFM TV
