INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Monday denied the Kremlin was considering a second wave of mobilization to further bolster Russian
forces in Ukraine."There are no discussions about that," Peskov told reporters in a call, according to the state-run TASS news agency.The
Kremlin denial of another round of mobilization came amid increasing speculation that Moscow may be readying another recruitment drive in an
of mobilization will begin in mid-January," wrote Kirill Goncharov, the deputy head of the Moscow branch of the liberal Yabloko party on
Telegram."They are still sending out call-up papers, they are still preventing people from leaving the country," Goncharov told The Moscow
consultancy Mayak Intelligence, described a fresh mobilization drive as "highly unlikely" for now, adding that the military was "having huge
problems properly managing the first wave and is busy trying to arm, equip and minimally train 150,000 or so to form units able to be
operational come spring."An estimated 259 called-up servicemen are believed to have died either in training camps in Russia or in subsequent
fighting on the frontlines in Ukraine, according to independent Russian news outlet MediaZona, which has been using open source data to
mobilization," Andrei Kolesnikov, an expert on Russian domestic politics at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told The Moscow
