Reply To: Russian Tensions
TS – “Is this the same British MOD that keeps telling us Russia is running out of missiles? LOL”
The same MOD that is very slow with its information.
Financial Times months ago revealed that Russia’s minorities were disproportionately being mobilised.
https://www.ft.com/content/ae06c532-e1ff-488a-b77c-cb93422d3dd7
https://www.ft.com/content/1c435e41-5f54-40f3-9dda-d24164def2cf
“The pattern is rooted in the Kremlin’s attempts earlier in the seven-month invasion of Ukraine to maintain a sense of normality in Russia’s major cities by targeting rural areas, with fewer resources to resist conscription, protest or flee.”
Seems as if the MOD is merely belatedly confirming something that was already well-known to be happening.