An analyst assessment assumes that more than 30,000 volunteers could be mobilized to supplement Russian ranks. Across the country, battalions are being formed to join the "special military operation", as President Vladimir Putin declared in February.
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Relevant military experience not being required, the call was sent with a patriotic appeal, being spread from Murmansk in the Arctic Circle to Perm in the Urals and Primorsky Krai to the Far East Russian. After five months of fighting, the Russian ranks are depleted, and the prospect is that around 30,000 volunteers will be mobilized in all.
The Russian president remains resistant to the idea of a general Russian mobilization, and this latest call is similar to last year's spring one. The assembled battalions are formed in order to increase military personnel without the use of drastic measures, focusing on investment in poorer and more isolated areas.
The impact of the battalions to be formed remains an important open question, as their military effectiveness tends to being inferior to Chechen volunteer units, which were relatively well equipped and had superior military experience.
According to Russian researcher at the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, Kateryna Stepanenko, part of these volunteer forces will participate exclusively in combat support, such as logistics and signal battalions, while another portion will reinforce existing military units or form combat battalions. The researcher ends by saying that "short-term training is unlikely to transform volunteers without previous experience into effective soldiers in any unit".
In any case, Russia has been at war with Ukraine for over five months.
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