Russia will not be able to replace the dead and wounded if the event continues support - Business Insider
About it writes Business Insider with reference to the American analytical center. The Russian military in November suffered record losses, daily about 1,500 soldiers died or were injured in the east of Ukraine and in the Kursk region, according to British military intelligence. According to the UK Ministry of Defense, 45,690 Russian soldiers were killed in November, the fourth month in a row, and losses increasing.
The Institute of War Study said on Thursday, December 5 that the Russian Federation would not be able to fill the losses of personnel. "Limited reserve of Russian personnel will probably not be able to maintain an increased level of losses in the medium term, and Western military support for Ukraine that remains vital for the possibility of the Armed Forces to cause losses at such a rate," the analysts explained in their daily war report .
Petro Chernik, a Ukrainian military observer, reported Armyinform on December 3 that Russia has increased the rates of recruitment of recruits to about 42,000 people a month. However, given the current rate of losses to continue the offensive in the Donetsk region, it will be necessary to increase the recruitment to 50,000 people per month. At the same time, Russia is experiencing an acute lack of internal labor.
In November, Reuters reported that more and more workers are involved in Russia's defense sector, and many sectors of the economy are difficult to search for staff. The Kremlin compensates for high losses in Ukraine, offering recruitment with relatively profitable contracts and replenishing the benches thanks to captive and foreign fighters. But Russia cannot simultaneously replace its troops lost in Ukraine and find a decision of a personnel crisis, the ISW analysts believe.
"Russians can either fight in Ukraine or work in the domestic economy of Russia, but they cannot do both at the same time," the publication says. Weapons from Western allies have played a vital role in Ukraine that Ukraine can cause great harm, even though because of the acute lack of the Armed Forces, it is difficult to restrain the exacerbated attacks.
"The continuation of regular supply of Western military assistance to Ukraine remains a decisive factor for Ukraine's ability to continue to defend themselves from Russian offensive operations and cause irreparable losses to the Russian military in 2025," the Washington analysts said. We will remind that in the media wrote about the "gold exile" Zelensky to London in exchange for peace, which the reaction of Ukraine appeared.