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Originally Posted by Skybird
Some day sago media rumoured that Putin issues kind of an ultimatum to Shoigu to start an attack, just any attack, on any Ukrianian city, no matter the cost, in a bid to regain initiave and/or to force Ukraine to divert forces it uses in its own offensive. The claimed russian offensive may be expression of that ultimatum, if it was real. That would possibly imply that the the Russians indeed support this offensive desperately and with just anything they can scratch together, which currently is not much.
Russian has announced the formation of new units. Thats a game they can do very, very, very often. It say snotrhign apout the quality of that units, but over the longer time their mere numbers may exhaust the Ukrainians.
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Putin has extended the deadline for Russian forces to capture Donetsk Oblast from August 31, 2022 to the highly unlikely target date of September 15, 2022 now Putin wants the Ukrainian counteroffensive halted by early October 2023 and has instructed Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu to improve the situation both demands are/were not possible. Russia's losses more amour and artillery than they can replace, so those new units will be weak canon fodder (that is why the cluster munition is given) the ongoing mobilisation does not mean they all going to Ukraine these are conscripts those are not allowed to fight in Ukraine they must first sign a contract to go to war the ones that go are mostly poor promise a lot of money, but money does not ensure good fighters more bad moral if they realize they are meat for the grinder.