Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he does not see the need for a second wave of the draft to bolster his forces in Ukraine even as he warned that Russia’s nine-month invasion could become a “lengthy process”.
Speaking via video link at an annual meeting with his human rights council on Wednesday, Putin attempted to reassure Russians that the war in Ukraine was going favourably for Moscow despite a series of disastrous setbacks that has sapped public support.
Although the Kremlin brooks almost no dissent over what it terms its “special military operation” in Ukraine, the comments indicated the president’s desire to calm public anxieties as the campaign sputters.
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