Ukraine warned the Kremlin is preparing for a massive new military offensive.

Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 160,000 more Russians aged 18–30 be drafted from April 1 to July 15, amid U.S.-brokered ceasefire talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the Kremlin is preparing a major offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, accusing Russia of stalling negotiations to gain territorial leverage.

Over 100,000 Russian soldiers are confirmed dead. Ukraine reported 46,000 dead and 380,000 wounded.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    6 days ago

    Vlad should call his MAGA supporters to join his cause and it will fulfill their need for violence.

  • Podunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    432·
    7 days ago

    Rest in peace you poor bastards. Forced to fight a rich mans war… for nothing.

  • Ksin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    181·
    6 days ago

    The last round of conscription was meet with uncharacteristically loud pushback from the russian public so pushing ahead with even more is interesting. Is the kremlin that confident in the effect of it’s propaganda? or is it just that desperate?

    • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      The Kremlin is confident that they will kill as many protesters as will be required to destroy any uprising.

      • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        The amount of Russians leaving the country to avoid conscription was very high. You can’t really hide that. There are stories of men being kept hidden to avoid the press gangs. But all of that is probably par for the course considering the amount of soldiers dying on foreign soil.

        • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Ehh sorry. I assumed/hoped you were talking about something more, that I wasn’t aware of. I know of these protests, but they were not nearly intense enough to disrupt the system. Much of the urban youth that might have led the protests has left the country in the meantime too, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the next round of recruitment is met with even weaker resistance…

      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        There were protests and hundred of thousands of young Russian men left the country after Putin announced the first “partial” mobilisation. The recruitment process was also botched and conscripted even the disabled and old.

    • Motorheadbanger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      The pushback was for the mobilisation, while this is a start of a routine conscription event, these happen twice every year

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      Both sides have resorted impressment to refill their ranks, regardless of public pushback men can still get bagged into a van on the street and sent to the front lines.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    6 days ago

    Are they going to be equipped like the Russian soldiers in late WWII? One soldier gets a rifle, the other gets five bullets, and both get helmets the thickness of tin cans.

    • Apollo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      Russian soldiers in late WW2 were typically very well equipped, as were most soldiers by that stage in the war (even German soldiers were pretty decently equipped late war, though mostly due to having almost no soldiers left to equip).

      Late summer 1941 and even at points during Stalingrad, sure there were definitely times when soviet soldiers were being thrown into battle massively underequipped, but this was the exception rather than the rule.

      By 1944 (even by 1943) the Red Army was more mechanised than the Wehrmacht and was better at Blitzkrieg than the Wehr ever were.

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Lend lease really helped with mechanization. The jeeps and trucks they had were indispensable for the war effort. We often talk about guns and bombs, but people don’t realize how important transportation and heavy machinery is.

    • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      That is ww1. Not world war 2. The whole ‘wait for your comrade to die and take his weapons’ did not happen during ww2. It did happen in ww1.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    As we all know, repeatedly drafting several divisions worth of men is a sign you’re winning the war…

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      Territorially? Yes, Russia is winning. But politically, economically and socially? Russia already lost. The deaths of thousands of soldiers in the face of Russia’s demographic crisis will result fewer labour force, which means lower tax revenue. The Russian economy is in war footing and this is already causing inflation because of heightened government expenditure, and businesses struggling to pay the ever increasing wage demands of civilians at home, who replaced the jobs that would have been filled instead by soldiers from the front. With secondary sanctions, even Chinese banks are reluctant to lend to Russia. The future generations of Russians will be paying for the economic and social consequences of the war in Ukraine. In essence, Russia may be winning territorially, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory with generational consequences.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        They still only have 20 percent of the country. After years. At this rate they will run out of people before Ukraine runs out of territory.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    And it’s 1 2 3 what are we fighting for don’t ask me I don’t give a damn next stop is Zaporizhzhia

    That’s a lot of meat for the grinder