Posted in: 18/09/2022 – 15:32Last updated: 18/09/2022 – 15:42
The US President has warned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, not to use chemical or nuclear weapons in the midst of the decline of his forces in the war in Ukraine. Putin stressed that this would change “the face of war unparalleled since World War II.” Militarily, Russia recently resorted to searching for contract soldiers to participate in the Ukraine war in exchange for attractive monthly wages of up to three thousand dollars a month.
Student of the US President joe biden His Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, did not use chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in the wake of the heavy losses he suffered in the country The war in Ukraine.
“Don’t. Don’t. Don’t,” Biden said in excerpts aired Friday night from a CBS interview. This came in response to a question regarding the possibility that Putin, whose army suffered heavy losses in the counter-attack of Ukrainian forces this month, might resort to chemical or other tactical nuclear weapons.
“It will change the face of war like no other since World War II,” Biden said, adding, “They (the Russians) will become more pariahs in the world than ever before.”
Ukraine has recovered large areas in the east from occupied Russian forces in recent weeks, thanks to heavy weapons supplied by its Western allies.
Moscow faces a wave of anger from the West a day following the discovery of a mass grave outside the city of Izyum, which was occupied by the Russians, and where Ukrainian officials say signs of torture appeared on all the bodies that were exhumed.
But Putin stressed that his war once morest his country’s pro-Western neighbor is proceeding according to plan. “Our offensive operations in Donbass do not stop, they are progressing at a slow pace (…) the plan (of operations) does not require a change (…) we are not in a hurry,” Putin said Friday, stressing that “the Russian army occupies more territory.”
The Russian army is looking for soldiers
Militarily, the Russian army, which is looking for contract soldiers to participate in the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine, resorts to deploying mobile recruitment trucks to attract volunteers, and offers them regarding three thousand dollars a month to motivate them.
The minimum monthly wage offered is 160,000 rubles ($2,700), nearly three times the national average.
A special unit placed one of the trucks in a central park in the southern Russian city of Rostov on Saturday, removing two sides of it to reveal a mobile office. Soldiers dressed in camouflage clothing and black masks showed their weapons to attract the attention of passersby, and distributed flyers entitled “Military Service on Contract – The Real Man’s Choice”.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine has disclosed their casualties, which Western intelligence agencies estimate in the tens of thousands on each side. Moscow has not updated the official death toll since March 25, when it said 1,351 Russian soldiers had been killed and 3,825 wounded.
The Kremlin announced last week that the issue of a general nationwide mobilization to bolster the forces is not currently under discussion. But the recruitment drive shows that Moscow needs more men. The officer in charge of the truck in Rostov said that Russians and foreigners between the ages of 18 and 60 who have completed at least secondary education can apply.
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