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Russia Will Soon Be on the Defense, But Then What?

War on the Rocks

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The Russian Military's Manpower Situation in the Ukrainian Offense

The best thing the Russian forces could have done for Ukraine is actually launch this yield time and it will conceive winter offensive, exhausted themselves to an extent. The challenge with that is that while the Russian military is only spent some brigades and some units on this operation, right? They have a very substantial number of motor rifle troops and territorial troops as reserves and they are echelon holding these lines. So the lines are a lot denser; they're multiple echelons and they're entrenched on the manpower front. But I think the main problem is that the Russian society, well, maybe parts support the war, parts acquiesce to the war in general didn't seem to want to participate

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