Manpower?
Evidently Ukraine has enough forces for rotation to the U.K and successfully conduct operations on two fronts.
From Yesterday.
“10K of #Ukraine soldiers have completed their training today and coming home to fight invaders”.
https://twitter.com/smartuacat/status/1580272749280624641Wagner group emptying prisons for manpower. Advance or be shot in the back. Just like the old days.
https://wagnergroup.online/prisoners-wagner-recruits/Any conversation about mercenaries would be incomplete without a mention of Wagner and the Chechens. Wagner group motto. “Death is our business and business is good.”
Ukraine does have a Foreign legion of sorts.
Misc info.
The current record for RF mobilization to UA POW is 6 days.
Day 6 and the Kerch Bridge rail line is still down.
https://twitter.com/tendar/status/1580347640164024320As of yesterday.
“According to Russian-appointed head of Crimea, waiting at the ferry crossing in Crimea takes about 3-4 days. And there are about 900 trucks in line at the moment”,
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1580230919306502151At the far end of this logistics line are 20K Russians, their back to the Dnipro River, awaiting food, fuel, ammo and winter gear.
Russians went to a Siberian warehouse for 1.2 million winter uniforms. It was empty. Then tried to buy winter gear from Turkey. They were turned down.
Wars go through phases. This is phase 3 which started with the arrival of HIMARS and RF supply dumps blowing up.
Phases subject to change. New RF General made his rep using barrel bombs at Aleppo.