The Russians' Effort to Hold the Line in the Winter

Russia is trying to stave off some kind of risk of a collapse at the front line and major defeats until the rains come. Putin said in Astana that of the 300,000 men who are going to be mobilized, 222,000 had already been brought to arms. Of those, 33,000 were already currently deployed in combat units,. And 16,000 were actually in combat operations. Now, that's really quite striking. Even if we assume there's a degree of fudge inaccuracy and so forth, it does show that the majority of mobileized reservists are not currently just simply thrown willy-nilly into the front line.