TORONTO (Archyde.com) – Russia’s partial mobilization of reserves to continue fighting in Ukraine is a “political game changer”, experts say It shows the view that it will not lead to an offensive.
Carl Scott, a former Royal Air Force pilot and British defense ambassador in Russia until 2016, said at an online event hosted by the University of Toronto’s Munch Institute for International Affairs and Public Policy on Wednesday that potential mobilization personnel could be recruited. pointed out, “It’s just an additional 300,000 ‘hostages’ and not an army.” Yuri Zhukov, an associate professor of politics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, said that such personnel “will only be put into the defensive line to maintain the front line.” I don’t think so,” he said.
“It’s easy to think that they aren’t professionally trained soldiers, so they can’t pose a threat,” Scott said. pointed out to be extremely dangerous. Referring to the “referendum” on the inclusion of Russia in the controlled area, he said, “If the Ukrainian army is forced to kill a large number of Russian soldiers (in this area), (regional conflict) from) to develop into an all-out war,” he said, showing a sense of crisis.
“We have received reports that Russia is mobilizing Ukrainians as soldiers in some areas of Zaporozhye and Kherson, which Russia has seized,” Zhukov said, adding that the soldiers would be used for Russian propaganda. “It is quite possible that propaganda will be put up saying that Ukrainians liberated by Russia are now fighting as soldiers in the Russian army, or that the ‘Naziized’ Ukrainian government is shooting at its own people,” he said. rice field.