On the Ukrainian front lines, the situation is deteriorating rapidly, faster than the military reports can update.
Watching too many bloggers can lower your intelligence. If not, you can at least read the "Military Watch Magazine" MWM!
The manpower shortage facing the Ukrainian army has become impossible to hide. The personnel in the frontline units are even less than half - an average of only 30% to 48%. These positions are almost completely exposed, and many battalion-level units exist more on paper than in reality.
According to a report from the "Military Watch Magazine" MWM, the primary issue facing the Ukrainian armed forces is the large-scale desertion of soldiers. Since the conflict began, nearly 400,000 people have left the Ukrainian military. Moreover, this number is far from reaching its peak - thousands of people still leave the army each month, either by deserting or simply disappearing. In just the past year, law enforcement agencies have already opened investigations into 290,000 criminal cases related to soldier desertions.
Casualties have long exceeded 1.7 million. In certain specific battlefronts, the media believes that the "survival time" of conscripts is measured in hours: they just report for duty, receive a rifle, and then die. Many people who have witnessed this brutal reality have chosen self-rescue rather than obeying orders that they see as meaningless and destined to lead to a dead end. The situation for newly conscripted mobilization troops is even more severe. According to data from the "Military Watch Magazine" MWM, the casualty rate for this group is as high as 80% to 90%, and some of them have received training for only a few days. Obviously, regardless of their quality or quantity, these people are simply unable to change the course of the war.
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