Vladimir Putin has told aides that a staggering half a million Russian losses would be “acceptable” if it enables him to dismember Ukraine, it has been claimed.
The same source suggests he is ready to mobilise two million or more reservists out of a potential pool of 25 million - much larger than the initial 300,000 suggested.
“The number of corpses of Russian soldiers, in these plans of Putin, does not play a role,” said the General SVR Telegram channel, which says it has inside Kremlin knowledge.
Russian President Putin believes he has a mobilisation manpower reserve of 25 million people so, “he does not care about 500,000 corpses. For him, this is two per cent of the reserve”.
The worrying post from the channel says: “Putin and the leadership of the military bloc are well aware that by transferring untrained and unprepared, and in many cases, poorly equipped people, to the front, they doom them to death."
He aimed to seize the strategic initiative by flooding eastern and southern Ukraine with his “untrained and poorly armed” mobilised forces.
The channel claims that the mobilisation “is proceeding successfully", despite widespread protest across Russia against the order and a mass exodus to neighbouring countries.
One Russian deserter said: “We queued up by the Russian side with the border with Kazakhstan for about 15 hours, and will wait just as long to cross to the other side of it. A friend says there is chaos, panic and even fights.”
Many neighbouring countries have welcomed men escaping Russia.
Cinemas and unused Covid hospitals have been deployed in Kazakhstan to give shelter to Russian refuseniks.
Only around 10,000 of the first tranche of deployed reservists will be trained, it is claimed, reinforcing the claim that they are seen as cannon fodder in Putin’s war.
Russian reservist Sergey Surkov, 29, from Moscow, has exposed the official lie that Putin's conscripts will be trained for up to three months before they are sent to the war zone.
He posted a video to his friends saying: “Hello [this is] the First Tank Regiment speaking. We were officially told that there will be no preparation before sending [us] to the war zone.”
He continued: “We will be sent to Kherson on September 29. There's no retraining or preparation. If I don’t return, think kindly of me, or don’t remember me at all - it won’t matter.”
