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Vernon holgate's avatar

This is a huge number of recruits to assimilate and train. I suspect it’s quantity over quality. It’s likely way in excess of Ukrainian efforts and significant in terms of the balance of power. Ukraine suggests in just over 3 years they have killed or wounded just short of a million Russian soldiers. Russia can replace half a million in just one year. This despite

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Vernon holgate's avatar

Russian recruits having some knowledge about their possible treatment in the Russian military and the prospect of being killed or seriously injured. The biggest mercenary army in history. Amazing and l find it hard to understand.

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Alexander Fernandez's avatar

Fascinating analysis, especially the clarity brought to Q4 recruitment through budget-based estimates. The correlation between rising bonus payments and accelerated recruitment momentum is striking—particularly the shift from ~900 to over 1,700 contracts per day in just one quarter.

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Michiel Nijk's avatar

First you impoverish the population by war, then you recruit them for war...

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Alex Seaborne's avatar

Excellent and very valuable analysis. Thank you.

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Valerii Terentev's avatar

Those are not all “new recruits” though ///

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Janis Kluge's avatar

While Ukaz 647 is in force, all contracts renew automatically... So it's very difficult to get out of a contract and it's not very likely that many of the new recruits have already received a payout previously.

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