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>>521050190
Not yet. It's about 30k per month this year according to Janis Kluge's reading of Russian regional government budget data. 30k p/m is comensurate with their casualty rate.
Ziggers can recruit enough for their continued slow grinding advance but if they want to do better, like taking on Sumy if you remember that from the summer offensive, they will need to mobilise.
>>520658879
>zigger recruitment is plummeting
Not yet. It's still about 30k per month per regional budget data for kontractnik volumes according to Janis Kluge.
I think that as the economic situation in Russia gets worse, it's plausible that sign-ups actually increase because the soldier's salary is about double the average wage in Russia. And you get a big sign-up bonus on top of that. While some places are cutting their bonuses, others are increasing them.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/07/world/russian-regions-military-recruitment-bonuses-intl
> The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a US-based conflict monitor, said that Russian force generation efforts were “increasingly resembling complex business models rather than an ideologically driven recruitment campaign.”