According to reference sources, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense released the hotline number for the mothers of Russian soldiers who were captured on the battlefield. Ukraine shouted that captured soldiers could be returned to russia, but only if the mothers of the soldiers traveled to Kiev and personally took their sons.
The analysis said that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's move has two purposes. The first is to embarrass Russia, soldiers killed or captured on the battlefield are commonplace, even if captured, the state should also take these soldiers back, to ask the families of these captured soldiers to come and claim, is to deliberately embarrass the Russian government.
The second is to further incite anti-war sentiment in Russia. After the outbreak of war, anti-war marches broke out in Moscow. This time, Ukraine called out to the mothers of the captured soldiers to lead them away, hoping to further incite anti-war activists in Russia and put pressure on the Russian government.
According to Ukrainian officials, almost 9,000 Russian troops have been killed and hundreds have been captured. If Ukraine's official data is accurate, then the Russian army has been severely damaged in Ukraine, and the next attack may appear to be more than enough and insufficient. But just today, the Russian army has captured the southern city of Kherson, so the figures reported in Ukraine are exaggerated. According to data released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, as of March 2, the Russian army had 498 dead and more than 1,500 wounded. More than 2,800 Ukrainian troops were killed and more than 570 captured.
Compared with the data of both sides, Ukraine may be exaggerated, after all, the Ukrainian side has also announced a lot of false news on the battlefield. For example, the soldiers stationed on Snake Island did not die, but Zelenskiy announced their deaths, and later the Russian side confirmed that the soldiers did not die and had been sent back to Ukraine by the Russian army. Although the losses of the Russian army are not as much as the Ukrainian side says, the losses are also real, and the more they drag on, the more unfavorable it is to Russia.
What Russia needs to pay more attention to is that according to Zelenskiy, 16,000 "foreign volunteers" have been assembled and are rushing to the battlefield in Ukraine. Many of these soldiers are from NATO member states, and although NATO is not directly involved, most of these "volunteers" are retired soldiers of NATO member countries. Moreover, the weapons and equipment supported by NATO countries have also arrived in Poland, and in the future, the Russian army will need to face this foreign legion when dealing with the Ukrainian army.
In fact, this time, Russia has been trying its best to exercise restraint when taking military action. Heavy weapons were not used at first, and even at the time of the first Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, the Russian military suspended military operations. The Russian military needs to avoid hurting civilians as much as possible, otherwise it will be under greater pressure from public opinion in the international community, and the purpose of the Russian army this time is to demilitarize Ukraine, so the focus is on attacking Ukrainian military facilities and the Ukrainian army that resists.
In addition to the frontal battlefield, Russia also needs to face containment pressure from the West. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries have successively introduced a number of economic sanctions, and even plan to kick Russia out of the SWIFT system. Recently, the United States and Britain began to use the United Nations to isolate Russia. For Russia, if it drags on for a long time, it will definitely cause more civilian casualties, and the international pressure on Russia will further increase. Therefore, Russia has invested some heavy weapons in some battlefields to attack and increase the intensity and speed of the attack.
However, eliminating the Ukrainian army is not russia's ultimate goal, and Russia prefers to use military action to bring Ukraine back to the negotiating table. Russia and Ukraine are about to usher in the second round of negotiations, unlike the first round of negotiations, this time Russia did not stop military operations, but increased the intensity of military operations, and now took the city of Kherson and stepped up the offensive against Kharkov.
While receiving all kinds of assistance from the West, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense officially announced today that it would turn from defense to attack and would take the initiative to attack the Russian army. The negotiations, which had been scheduled for 2 March, had once again been delayed for the reasons of the Ukrainian delegation, indicating that Ukraine was holding back much. In the second negotiation, it is crucial that the two sides can reach consensus on the two issues of ceasefire and neutrality.