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Originally Posted by mivdo
How long would it reasonably take to bring conscripted soldiers to the war? At the rate that Ukraine is moving along, it might not even matter. Professional troops are being over run. What more inexperienced, out of shape, under equipped conscripts?
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Russia still has plenty of troops left unfortunately. Kharkiv was a big win, but for the most part the fronts haven't been moving much, and Russia still controls about 20% of Ukraine. Once mud season comes in again, making big gains will be very hard until next spring, although that depends a ton on what the winter is going to be like. (Cold is good, snow is bad, etc.)
Russians have already been throwing troops to the front with minimal training, and will keep doing it most likely. Pretty bad troops can hold a line as long as there's enough of them.
If Kremlin has any brains left, they'll throw some forces in there as a stopgap while training the rest, then bringing in fresh, somewhat trained troops in the spring. Not great troops, but fresh and with a few months of training at least.
Unless the Russian front suffers a complete collapse of battle morale (far from impossible) or the country suffers an economic collapse (seems increasingly possible, but not likely), the war will likely drag on until next summer at the very least.
Russia might suck in multiple ways, but they're still a really big bear to skin.