Russia’s New ‘Large-Scale War’ Plan Is Already Doomed to Fail

Jan 11 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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Russia appears to be laying the groundwork to summon hundreds of thousands more men across the country to take part in the war against Ukraine.

Lawmaker Andrei Kartapolov, the head of the State Duma’s Defense Committee, lamented in an interview with RBK on Wednesday that the country doesn’t have enough mobilized reserve forces for a “large-scale war.”

Current reserve forces, he said, are enough to “meet the demands that stand before the government,” but...

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