Kyiv Independent: Ukraine war latest: Kremlin says Russia ready for mass mobilization 'at any moment'

[Dennis Donovan]

Kyiv Independent - Ukraine war latest: Kremlin says Russia ready for mass mobilization 'at any moment'

by The Kyiv Independent news desk
April 30, 2025 11:05 PM

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Russia can mobilize for war on a scale comparable to the Soviet Union during World War II if necessary, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on April 30.

"If a great country needs to stand up, it will stand up at any moment. No one can have any doubts," Peskov said during a lecture at the Victory Museum in Moscow.

He claimed that "millions" of Russians are already assisting the military effort against Ukraine by collecting aid, sending equipment and ammunition to the front line with personal funds, and weaving camouflage nets.

/snip

Peskov is generally full of shit.

[Captain Zero]

1. Many of their best Generals are DEAD

Maybe some of the people weaving camo nets can be promoted.

[maxsolomon]

2. The waves of hyperbolic BS never stop.

If Russia could throw more manpower at Ukraine, they would have already.

Ukraine should be worried about Belarus; Putin may be coercing them into opening a new front on the Northwest.

[Jit423]

3. Russia is getting more help from the USA and North Korea than the west is giving to Ukraine.

That's how it appears to me. Sad that people can't or won't see the connection to Ukraine and the Russian aggression that they promised after WWII.
Western democracy lies on the brink. We should have allowed Ukraine to bomb further into Russia earlier. As long as Russian people are not feeling the brunt of the fighting, Putin will prevail.

[Basso8vb]

4. Lol

Putin doesn't have anyone left to mobilize.

Slava Ukraini.

[MagickMuffin]

5. When you have to rely on another country's army, you have already lost

Mobilize yeah right. You should wave the white flag. Loser!

[Torchlight]

6. Given their reliance on foreign fighters,

the heavy losses among junior officers*, and an ongoing shortage of skilled personnel—alongside Moscow's clear reluctance to engage in direct confrontations, its failure to secure air superiority, and the need to fend off attacks deep within its own borders—it seems that, beyond his current strategy of attrition and waiting out the West, Putin is rapidly running out of viable options. I think Putin's figuring out that his useful idiot, Mr. trump, is more idiot than useful.

(*Institute Study for War)

[DoBW]

7. only after ...

they open their latest box of Made-in-North Korea soldiers