Russia’s recruitment efforts are getting increasingly desperate
While the global effort to support Ukraine was the central focus of last week’s NATO summit, Russia’s recruitment efforts are getting increasingly desperate. The central Russian region of Tatarstan, home to 2 million of Russia’s 5.3 million ethnic minority Turkic group, is offering 100,000 rubles to anyone who can persuade their friends or relatives to fight for Moscow in Ukraine. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
The move follows the increase in January of the maximum conscription age from 27 to 30, and the recruitment of untrained soldiers lacking military skills and experience. It’s hardly the best look for a military force that expected to take Kyiv within five days, but instead has lost over 350,000 troops, and is now stuck in a bloody stalemate more than two years on.
The number of EU countries who met the deadline for filing a National Energy and Climate Plan, which details each nation’s plan to hit its share of the EU’s environmental targets.
Oh, dear. Looks like Europe’s political leaders are too preoccupied with trivialities like immigration, inflation, and rising geopolitical tensions. This democracy business really does have a habit of upending the agendas of unelected bureaucrats and NGOs, doesn’t it?
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