Russia continues a campaign to recruit "volunteers" for contract military service. The plan is set for each federal district, except Moscow - 200 people to the army each week, the Main Intelligence Directorate (MID) of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reports.
"The military leadership of the russian Federation has established clear "recruitment norms": for the Far Eastern and Siberian federal [districts], it is 200 "volunteers" every week. At the same time, in Moscow, recruitment is not carried out at all. Campaigning events are held to motivate "volunteers" to serve. In particular, traditional russian narratives about the "collective West" and "non-existent Ukraine" are repeated. Increased material support and benefits are also promised," the MID said.
Such numbers of "volunteers," according to the plan of the russian command, such numbers of " volunteers " should help restore the losses of personnel who took part in combat in the territory of Ukraine.
"They also plan to form several new units. When signing contracts, they give preference to those who previously served in the military," Ukrainian intelligence added.
According to the MID, russia has already used at least 95% of the trained battalion tactical groups, "and this was still not enough to achieve "success" in the war with Ukraine."
Earlier, the British intelligence stated that the russian federation involved over 65% of their ground fighting power.
The Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev suggested that without general mobilization, russia would not be able to form even 80 battalion tactical groups, only 60-70.