1/ Russia's poorly trained and armed mobilised soldiers are acting as a human wall blocking Ukrainian advances with their bodies, and are being replaced as fast as they are killed, according to accounts from Ukrainian troops on the front line. ⬇️
2/ Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL) has published an interesting insight into what effect the mobilised Russians are having on Ukraine's offensive in the small part of the Kharkiv region that remains under occupation. A tank crewman interviewed by RFERL says:
3/ "There are too many of them here. We hit their positions with artillery and thought we could advance, but [Russian forces] brought more soldiers there. I can't say they are badly trained, but they don't seem to realise where they are going."
4/ "[Russian forces] are not sparing their soldiers. There is no sense in using your troops like that. They are brought into a bare forest and just stay there as long as they can."
5/ RFERL comments that the Ukrainians say that the mobilised troops lack weapons and military experience, which matches accounts from the mobiks and their relatives back in Russia. /end
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