The Kremlin is facing a manpower crisis due to high troop losses and recruitment difficulties, the defense official has said.
The assessment comes as the Kremlin faces a challenging decision about whether to announce general mobilization, following a retreat from more than 3,000 miles of previously occupied territory inThe unnamed official said a high number of Russian casualties has meant that the Kremlin is"increasingly straining to find new recruits to fill out their thin ranks."
"The Russians are performing so poorly that the news from Kharkiv province has inspired many Russian volunteers to refuse combat," the official said, according to a report published by the Defense Department. The official referred to a social media video showing a representative from the Wagner Group, a private Russian military contractor, trying to convince Russian prisoners to join the war. Britain's defense ministry last weekRussian soldiers patrol at the Mariupol drama theatre, bombed last March 16, on April 12, 2022 in Mariupol, in an image taken during a trip organized by the Russian military.
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