However, the British Ministry of Defense indicated that this deployment would be insufficient to really strengthen the Russian army.
Russia has begun to develop new formations over the past two months in an effort to strengthen its ground forces, according to the UK Ministry of Defense report on Wednesday (August 2nd
The document says Moscow should deploy them as a ” reserve force in Ukraine ” and seeks to ” strengthen its forces against NATO “. “ Without a major new wave of mandatory mobilization, Russia is unlikely to find enough new troops” for “ at least one new army, ” the ministry added, however.
Moscow’s new strategy
This information comes as the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, passed a law on July 25. The text increases the maximum age of conscription from 27 to 30 years. On July 31, London criticized Moscow’s inability to protect its population from the war.
Since the beginning of the conflict, Russia has simply filled already existing formations and mobilized reservists. The UK MoD says an “exception to this was the Third Army Corps created in the summer of 2022, which performed generally poorly “.
Source : L Independant
