Russian Ukraine War

[ElwoodBlues1]

Referenda are planned over the next few days to incorporate the mostly Russian speaking areas of the Donbas and around Herson etc into the Russian Federation. This will fundamentally change the picture. I  understand that the Russian troops being mobilised now are mainly ex military who will serve in Russia itself, freeing the regular army to be deployed in Ukraine.

I have a friend in Russia and this is how he has described the situation.
He is an engineer but hasn't been asked to join anything.
It's more of a home guard scenario, the propaganda they get fed is Ukraine being aggressive towards Russia and them needing to defend their soil not the other way around.