Russia’s Ukraine Advances Slowed By 50% As Troop Replacement Becomes Crisis

https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2025/02/russias-ukraine-advances-slowed-by-50.html

by jonfla

10 comments
  1. Money is still good but not many that wants to sacrifice their life.

    >”Reserves from the 2022 mobilization have already been lost. The Russian army now relies primarily on contract soldiers drawn by financial incentives but recruitment has nearly stopped. The problem isn’t the size of the payments—it’s that even in Russia, people are divided into those willing to sell their lives for money and those who are not. The ones who were willing are gone. Recruitment is stalling while losses continue to rise each week.”

  2. Where are the Russian apologists here to claim “they’re still taking ground every day” nah Russia is a terrorist state with a dogshit military.

  3. I’m getting the impression both sides have manpower issues.

    A lot of Ukraine troops have deserted partly due to not getting breaks and poor ‘management’, whilst on the Russian side an incredible number of troops are dying and there is no longer the mechanized support due to drone activity which means advances are slowing.

  4. It doesn’t help when there are constant videos of mass graves being dug so fallen soldiers don’t receive payment for their families, also FPV drones put your body into a blender and the animals eat the minced meat left also making you MIA. All service is for them is gratuitous death.

  5. This is music to my ears. Sacrificing huge troop numbers has been Russia’s only way of clawing away at Ukrainian territory. Hopefully the tide is beginning to turn and Russia will soon be the ones retreating.

  6. Russia claims its armed forces are now larger than pre-war. Where are these extra guys? Do they not exist?

  7. Why not pull more of those smiling shirtless frolicking North Korean soldiers? I’m sure the fashionable dictator has traitors and spies in the military he will gladly donate.

  8. And imagine Putin believing all the lies from every sychophant between him and the front telling him it’s all going to plan.

    Clearly Vova drew no lessons-learned from his new roommate Bashar al Assad about the national security risks of building a regime on a foundation of lies. Eventually it crumbles, and quickly.

  9. A fucking snail could have gone across Ukraine by now.

  10. Russia will not be able to demographically recover from this war. Hope they like being backfilled by Uzbeks and Tajiks taking over their nation (which is absolutely not a bad thing and would be an upgrade)

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