More than 2,400 people were arrested by the government. The mobilization order issued by the Russian government was illegal. Putin faced the mistake and made changes. He also made a latest request. Can this save the Russian army's disadvantage in the Ukrainian battlefield?

More than 2,400 people were arrested by the government. The mobilization order issued by the Russian government was illegal. Putin faced the mistake and made changes. He also put forward a latest requirement. Can this save the Russian army's disadvantage in the Ukrainian battlefield?

Maybe no one expected that the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine would last for more than 7 months. When the Russian president announced a special military operation against Ukraine on February 24, it was generally believed that Russia might only take 7 days to end the battle, forcing the Ukrainian government to surrender and achieve the purpose of this military operation. However, the outside world also saw that the battle did not end in 7 days. After 7 months, the Russian army's advantage in the Ukrainian battlefield continued to shrink. Especially in mid-September, the Russian army suffered a defeat since the war began in eastern Ukraine. After receiving a large amount of military assistance provided by NATO , the Ukrainian army successfully broke through the defense line arranged by the Russian army on the northern Kharkov battlefield, forcing the Russian army to discard a large amount of heavy equipment and retreat quickly, successfully allowing the Ukrainian army to recover thousands of square kilometers of land and dozens of villages, making Ukrainian President Zelensky proud.

The reason why the Russian army fought so embarrassingly is mainly due to three reasons: First, the intelligence system is backward. With the strong support of the NATO military group, the Ukrainian army achieved one-way transparency to the Russian army on the battlefield. Second, Russia's weapons and equipment are backward and its serious lack of high-precision guided ammunition has led to the failure of the Russian army to produce a devastating effect like the US army. Third, the combat troops have a small number of people and a large defense zone. After the troops are dispersed, they cannot form an overwhelming advantage on the Ukrainian army. In fact, the third reason is actually a key factor in the Russian army's defeat on the battlefield this time. Up to now, Russia has invested about 200,000 combat troops in the Ukrainian battlefield, of which 170,000 are front-line combat troops, and the remaining 30,000 are basically militia organizations in the eastern Ukrainian region. Judging from a certain battlefield alone, the Russian army is indeed not inferior to the Ukrainian army in terms of total strength, but considering that the Russian army's defense line is too long, the Russian army is embarrassed to be short of its strength.

This time, the defeat on the Kharkov front was because the main force of the Russian army was concentrated on the battlefield on the southern front and counterattacked the Ukrainian army in the Khelson area. Only then was the Ukrainian army finally caught a gap and successfully launched a beautiful counterattack on the northern front. It was precisely because of the embarrassing situation of the lack of military strength in the Russian army that Russian President Putin also issued a "partial mobilization order" on September 21, that is, to recruit 300,000 reserve combat troops. This is the first time that the Russian army issued a mobilization order after the end of World War II . Therefore, it has also attracted the attention of Western countries. They are also worried about whether the former Soviet Red Army will be successfully resurrected, and the reality has also made Western countries completely relieved. According to a foreign agency specializing in data statistics, since the anti-recruitment protests were announced on September 21, more than 2,400 people have been arrested by Russian government departments for opposing and refusing to become recruits. Perhaps because of concerns about going to the battlefield, a large number of Russian people have chosen to leave Russia and go to other neighboring countries. The emergence of this situation has also made the outside world worried that Putin's mobilization order can really take effect?

In response to the current recruitment problem in Russia, at a meeting of the Russian Security Commission held on September 29, Putin emphasized in his speech that there were many problems with this mobilization, and all errors must be corrected and ensured that they will not happen again. At the same time, he also made a request that the Russian army should first convene personnel with military experience and required professional training. Fathers from large families, people with serious illnesses, and even the elderly should be exempted in accordance with the law. All problems that have not been recruited according to law must be resolved during mobilization. Those who are wrongly recruited must be repatriated to their original place. It has to be said that the series of problems that arise during Russia's mobilization this time also directly exposed a failure of Russia's domestic military reform.After the collapse of , Russia inherited most of the Soviet Union's military strength after , but the combat power of the Russian army was significantly different from that of the Soviet army. In order to ensure the improvement of the Russian military's combat effectiveness, the Russian military began the first round of military reforms in 2008.

It was just that although Serdukov, then Minister of Defense, solved the bloated institutional problem of the Russian army, it caused the Russian army's ability to deal with large-scale conventional wars to no longer exist. In Shoigu's reform, the Russian army did not restore its previous mobilization system, which eventually led to the Russian army being even worse than the Ukrainian army in mobilization. After all, the Ukrainian army that is now suppressing the Russian army is basically a group of mobilization troops, and this is mainly due to its good mobilization system, which has significantly improved the combat effectiveness of the Ukrainian army as a whole. It can be said that if Russia does not face its problems and flaws and remedy it in time, otherwise this conventional military conflict will probably be difficult to develop as Russia thinks.