Russia Calling In Military Reinforcements From Across The Country Due To ‘Continued Personnel Losses’ – UK Says

According to the UK Ministry of Defence, the Russian military is calling up reinforcements from throughout the entire country because it has been losing a large number of personnel.

Following up on the latest publicly available intelligence assessment released on Tuesday, March 15 by the UK Ministry, Russia is redeploying forces from places including “its Eastern Military District, the Pacific Fleet, and Armenia,” as well as increasingly relying on alternative sources of fighters such as “private military companies, Syrians, and other mercenaries.”

Faced with “continued personnel losses in Ukraine, Russia is increasingly seeking to generate additional troops to bolster and replace its personnel losses,” the UK assessment said.

“It is likely Russia is struggling to conduct offensive operations in the face of sustained Ukrainian resistance.”

“Russia will likely attempt to use these forces to hold captured territory and free up its combat power to renew stalled offensive operations,” the UK assessment said.

This comes a day after reports surfaced that Russia has asked China for economic and military support, as well as a message from Putin last week requesting foreign fighters to assist in the country’s military invasion of Ukraine.