# Why Russia needs a new round of mobilization

https://mins.news/en/item/74303

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-25 16:54 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/why-russia-needs-a-new-round-of-mobilization/

> The Kyiv Independent examines why Russia’s manpower advantage is under pressure, what a new mobilization campaign might look like, whether Russians could resist it, and how hundreds of thousands of additional troops could affect the war. Its journalists also followed Ukrainian military medics from the battlefield to Sweden for a short mental-health retreat.

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