  > ukraine is struggling to replace battlefield losses with conscription, barely hitting two-thirds of its target. russia, meanwhile, is replacing its losses by recruitment with lucrative contracts, without needing to revert to mass mobilisation. a senior ukrainian military commander admits that there has been a collapse in morale in some of the worst sections of the front. a source in the general staff suggests that nearly a fifth of soldiers have gone awol from their positions. they just memory holed the stealth mobilisation narrative.
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