Putin will spend a new mobilization in Russia by the end of the year - Bloomberg

According to three people close to the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defense of Russia, the army does not receive enough new soldiers to cope with the losses on the forefront, who have reached a maximum since the invasion of the invasion in February 2022. Regional officials leave, on average, more than a third of their quotas for the set are not fulfilled, said on the conditions of anonymity a person familiar with the situation.

According to two people, the situation can force Russia to consider new mobilization. This can present a rotation for the rest of the troops on the front, said one of the people, while the other said that a new call could be announced at the end of this year. The military invasion of Ukraine into the Kursk region of Russia, which has met virtually no resistance, emphasized the problems faced by the Kremlin, the publication writes.

Ukrainian troops control 1000 square kilometers of Russian territory, and offensive operations are ongoing. Russia's inability to repel the Ukrainian offensive and restore control of its border has found a lack of defense reserves. In Moscow, hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the front in the east and south of Ukraine, where it faces increasing losses, and the fighting, for the most part, as the publication writes, "went into a dead end.

" In September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 300,000 reservists to mobilize, which caused a surge to anxiety among Russians and escape from the country to a million people. In an effort to avoid repetition of this experience, the Kremlin focused on calls for patriotism and money proposals to try to provide 30,000 new soldiers, which it needs monthly only to replenish the ranks.

This encourages the Kremlin to increase payments to the federal and regional authorities to convince more people to join the army. The pressure to fill the quotas is so strong that rich regions lure people in poorer to sign contracts with them and get the right to larger bonuses. The scale of Russian losses and insufficient levels of substitution are increasingly complicated by maintaining the current strategy of slow advance forward in Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the situation.

There is no longer any debate about the capture of Kiev and other cities, since there are no people in Russia, said a person. The Russian authorities bring financial incentives to the extreme, since the recruiting set falls. In July, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobianin promised to pay 1. 9 million rubles ($ 22,000) to volunteers who will sign military contracts, in addition up to 600,000 rubles, which are already paid annually by the monthly payments of the city government for payments and Bonus.

The Ministry of Defense offers. In general, according to the mayor, with the survival of the recruits had to earn 5. 2 million rubles a year, ie about $ 56. 5 thousand. And this is about three times higher than the average annual salary in the Russian capital last year, emphasizes Bloomberg. St. Petersburg, the hometown of Putin and the second largest city in Russia, quickly imitated the example of Moscow, offering new recruits 1. 6 million rubles.

Putin also instructed the Government to double the Federal Prize to Novobrants to 400,000 rubles by the end of the year and urged the regional authorities to pay the same amount. At the same time, the average monthly salary in Russia in May was just less than 86,500 rubles. Some regions ask for subsidies from the government to help them fulfill Putin's request because they cannot raise money at the local level, a official familiar with the situation.

The demand for labor from the military has already filed an accelerated race with enterprises, since the lack of labor in the superheated economy of Russia is increasing. This pressure increases as bonus payments increase to try to attract more and more men. "Putin needs about 500,000 people over the next 12 months to compensate for the decline and rotation of their troops deployed in Ukraine," said Bloomberg Economics Russia Alex Isakov.

According to him, the current recruitment strategy in Russia, based on the payment of volunteers from the higher than market, will be inadequate to achieve this goal. Instead, he considers the government most likely to switch his attention to conscripts. Focus reported that the soldiers-stakes from the 80th Motorized Rifle Division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who serve in the Murmansk region, want to transfer to Kursk.