{"id":1823,"date":"2022-03-25T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/russia-may-call-conscripts-reservists-to-replace-heavy-losses-in-ukraine-business-insider\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:03:40","slug":"russia-may-call-conscripts-reservists-to-replace-heavy-losses-in-ukraine-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/russia-may-call-conscripts-reservists-to-replace-heavy-losses-in-ukraine-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia may call conscripts, reservists to replace heavy losses in Ukraine &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK officials believe Putin&#8217;s conscript or reservist manpower may soon be called upon to to replace the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-russian-militarys-heavy-losses-from-ukraine-in-charts-2022-3\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">heavy losses<\/a> Russia has suffered in Ukraine.&nbsp;<br \/>On Thursday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceHQ\/status\/1506872121858969600?s=20&amp;t=Q_aOMHHUKiA83gT3czaFjQ\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">UK&#8217;s Ministry of Defence said<\/a> &#8220;Russia is likely now looking to mobilize its reservist and conscript manpower, as well as private military companies and foreign mercenaries, to replace these&nbsp;considerable losses.&#8221;&nbsp;<br \/>But the US has seen &#8220;no tangible indications of reinforcements being brought in from elsewhere in the country&#8221; according to a senior US defense official told reporters on Tuesday.&nbsp;<br \/>NATO estimates Russia between 7,000 and 15,000 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine and the US believes &#8220;the Russians may be slightly below a 90 percent level of assessed available combat power,&#8221; according to the senior defense official.&nbsp;<br \/>The UK&#8217;s ministry of defense previously said Russia will likely &#8220;use these forces to hold captured territory and free up its combat power to renew stalled offensive operations,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-16-22\/h_54dc6c11b1b6465b9cca07a7963c2483\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">according to a report from CNN.&nbsp;<\/a><br \/>The US also also not seen evidence of foreign fighters being flown into Ukraine; however, a senior US defense official told reporters the Wagner Group is active in Ukraine. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/international\/news\/dont-ask-us-any-questions-mother-of-dead-fighter-says-russian-mercenary-group-left-her-in-the-dark-and-threatened-her-access-to-her-sons-gravesite\/articleshow\/88419665.cms\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">Wagner Group<\/a> \u2014 a shadowy private military group with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamerica.org\/international-security\/reports\/decoding-wagner-group-analyzing-role-private-military-security-contractors-russian-proxy-warfare\/executive-summary-key-findings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">&nbsp;close ties<\/a> to the Russian government \u2014 has been connected to Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine since 2014.&nbsp;<br \/>Former mercenaries who worked for the Wagner Group say they were contacted weeks before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-60711211\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">a report from the BBC.<\/a> Several said they were invited to &#8220;picnic in Ukraine&#8221; and that they were &#8220;recruiting anyone and everyone,&#8221; including those who had been banned from other mercenary groups.&nbsp;<br \/>                           Keep reading                         <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-may-call-conscripts-reservists-to-replace-heavy-losses-in-ukraine-2022-3\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK officials believe Putin&#8217;s conscript or reservist manpower may soon be called upon to to replace the heavy losses Russia has suffered in Ukraine.&nbsp;On Thursday, the UK&#8217;s Ministry of Defence said &#8220;Russia is likely now looking to mobilize its reservist and conscript manpower, as well as private military companies and foreign mercenaries, to replace these&nbsp;considerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}