# Why Russia needs a new round of mobilization

https://mins.news/en/video/74312

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-09-25 16:53 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyTGPAz9Bv4

> Russia’s battlefield casualties in Ukraine are outpacing new recruitment while Moscow continues trying to seize all of Donetsk Oblast. Its costly model of using high salaries, enlistment bonuses and contract soldiers to replenish forces is becoming difficult to sustain, raising the question of whether another mobilization campaign could begin in 2026.

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