A troubled Russia initiates a hidden enlistment. Russian General Girkin: “The mission is a failure”

LONDRA – It can be called “silent” mobilization. Vladimir Putin did not order the mass call to arms that some expected from the May 9 speech on Red Square, partly because it would not be a popular move, partly because it would reveal the extreme difficulties facing the more than 100,000. men already employed in the invasion of Ukraine.