Russia secretly mobilising more troops due to massive personnel losses in the war – Ukraine’s General Staff

Sunday, 6 March 2022, 22:09

The Russian military continues to fire on the civilian population of Ukraine, and is suffering such losses in the field that the Kremlin is being forced into covert mobilisation tactics in the Krasnodar Region, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

Source: operative information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 6:00 pm on Sunday 6 March

Quote: "The eleventh day of the heroic confrontation of the Ukrainian people against the Russian military invasion continues. Their advancement unsuccessful, the occupation forces –in violation of the international humanitarian law– continue to perform missile strikes on civil and transport infrastructure, shelling and killing the civilian population."

Details: In the village of Liptsi (Kharkiv region), occupiers confiscated the phones of local residents, forced them to wear white and red armbands, and to hang white flags on buildings. 

At about 2 p.m., the enemy fired a massive missile at Vinnytsia airport. 

The shelling of Mariupol and Irpin does not stop during the day. Certain units of the Armed Forces "counterattacked in the Mariupol direction" and destroyed 3 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armoured "Tiger" vehicles and about 30 Russian troops; 2 servicemen were taken prisoner. 

The enemy has losses in other areas. 

According to the General Staff: "Due to the significant losses suffered by the occupiers since the beginning of the war, in order to attract volunteers, the Krasnodar Region began covert mobilisation and increased [the spread of] propaganda materials about "neo-fascist atrocities and the need to destroy fascism." (information being verified)