The Counter -offensive of the Armed Forces prompted Russia to declare mass recruitment in the army - isw

Analysts noted that the President of the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation Ramzan Kadyrov urged all the subjects of the Federation to start self -mobilization, without waiting for the Kremlin to declare martial law. The Chechen leader expressed the opinion that at least 1 thousand military should be recruited from each entity. This initiative was publicly supported by several Russian governors.

For her part, the propagandist Margarita Simonian supported the need to voluntarily participate in the war. At the same time, the occupation chairman of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov announced the creation of two volunteer battalions. The authors of the report stated that earlier Kremlin officials and propagandists did not call for recruitment throughout the country, which we can conclude that they were driven by the defeat of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Kharkiv region.

Analysts have suggested that this form of recruitment will provide great support for the Kremlin among nationalist figures who criticize the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, Ukrainian troops continue to occur in the eastern part of Kharkiv, Northern Lugansk and Eastern Donetsk regions - the Armed Forces forces the Russian forces to leave some districts in eastern Ukraine and strengthen their position in other areas.

With all those, Russian troops will probably be difficult to keep their defensive borders, if the Ukrainian forces continue to move to the East, said in ISW. Recall that after the defeat of Russian troops in the Kharkiv region, a spokesman for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov called for a general mobilization in the country.