Quotes
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree."
Alongside the ministry's post was a quote from Scottish poet Thomas Campbell, which read The basic problem that the Russians are facing is the same problem everyone faces in a protracted conflict,
The various private military groups have been brought under more direct control,
Putin has attempted a 'covert' mobilization through increasingly desperate measures of increasing incentives and reducing requirements, but this will only suffice for a limited time,
Recruitment has so far targeted poorer families and those from ethnic minorities,
These are not people who've never seen or heard anything about the army,
said then Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu After the supply of ammunition, replacing casualties is the second most important aspect for both sides in winning a war of attrition,
They're less prominent, now that Wagner has been brought to heel,
Both Russia and Ukraine have been facing serious problems with personnel numbers,
said William Freer, a research fellow in national security at the U.K.-based think tank, the Council on Geostrategy Russian losses, again both killed and wounded in action, in just the first year of the war exceeded the total of all Soviet losses in any conflict since World War II combined,
And I think we’re just watching very closely how long that stance can actually be one that he can maintain, and I think it’s an important one for all of us to watch very closely,
If you look at the salient around Pokrovsk the number of Russian forces there is astounding. It’s tens of thousands of forces that they’ve put into that very small area. As you know, when you have that many forces in a very small area … it’s a target rich environment for the Ukrainians,
[It ... It is] forcing the Russian military to dig into Soviet-era stockpiles and fuel tanks from World War II,
said a senior U.S. defense official My assessment is that the Ukrainians will be able to maintain their position in Kursk for some amount of time, here into the future,
said the senior U.S. military official Russia does continue to devote significant amounts of resources and … lives toward a grinding campaign, redoubling its efforts in the east,
said the senior defense official Certainly, they're focused on how they get through the winter, but they're thinking a little bit longer term about how they set conditions for success next year,
The Ukrainians are thinking forward to 2025,
It’s kind of the Russian way of war in that they continue to throw mass into the problem,
a senior U.S. military official said this week, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal assessments, in announcing the Pentagon’s latest Russian casualty estimate