Russia mobilization rhetoric hints at shift to static defense strategy

Published April 19, 2023 8:31pm ET




Suffering vast and unanticipated losses in his Ukraine war effort, Russian President Vladimir Putin last year ordered a mobilization draft of 300,000 conscripts. Another draft had been anticipated for this year. Speaking on Tuesday, however, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media that “there is no talk of a second wave of mobilization in the Kremlin.”

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