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As the battle in Bakhmut continues to rage both the Ukrainian military and Russian military are making serious efforts to increase their military strength in order to come out victorious in Bakhmut and the war in general.
In a bid to achieve the above the Russian military have released a video seeking for more recruitment of professional soldiers to help in her offensive operations in Ukraine.
The Russian military has launched a video campaign to lure more professional soldiers to fight in Ukraine which challenges those interested to show they are "a real man" and swap what it casts as hum-drum civilian life for the battlefield.
The ad, set to stirring music, follows a report from British military intelligence and Russian media reports that suggest Moscow is seeking to recruit up to 400,000 professional soldiers - on a volunteer basis - to bolster its forces in Ukraine.
Russia, which says it is prosecuting what it calls "a special military operation," haven't disclosed the number of military personnel that have been killed since the inception of the war in Ukraine. Although the latest leak from the US military intelligence have reported that about 43,000, while the Ukrainian military personnel that have been killed is about 17,500. This to me isn't the actual figures of the war casualties.
The recent recruitment ad has been sent to various Russian social networking sites to enable what they described as "real men" recruitment to join the war.
The ad, which invites men to sign a contract with the Russian Defence Ministry for a salary starting at 204,000 roubles ($2,495) a month, shows a man in supermarket dressed in military uniform holding a heavy machine gun. He is then shown in the uniform of a security guard with the question:
"Is this the kind of defender you dreamt of becoming?"
After launching a partial mobilisation drive in September which prompted tens of thousands of Russian men to flee the country to avoid being drafted, the authorities are playing down the possibility of a second mobilisation call - despite a move to introduce electronic call up papers to clamp down on draft dodgers - and are seeking to recruit volunteers instead.
There have been posters calling for new recruits with inscription "Our profession is to protect our Motherland."
The posters, which say the army is looking for gunners, sappers, military medics, drivers and tank commanders, promise potential recruits "respect, an honourable profession and decent pay."
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