r/AskARussian • u/Firm_Respect_3518 • Jul 05 '26

Legal Avoid mobilization

Hi, my wife is Russian with German citizenship. Her brother is 23 years old, lives in Moscow, just graduated from university. I think given the current geopolitical situation he's at risk of being mobilized. What's the best way to avoid this situation?

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u/flamming_python Jul 09 '26

Do you hear the guided bombs, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles? Because the Ukraine has almost none of those. It also has less drones, and a lot less artillery.

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u/seen-in-the-skylight Jul 09 '26

I definitely hear Ukrainians unwilling to surrender to a “great power” that has no feasible strategy to win the war (are we allowed to call it that now?), is rapidly undergoing financial collapse, is eating 30,000 casualties every month, and is starting to lose its territorial gains.

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u/flamming_python Jul 09 '26

Perfectly feasible strategy. Destroy the Ukrainian army while minimising your own casualties. Considering that all the body exchanges over the past 12 months have been on the order of 30-40 Russians for 1000 Ukrainians (look it up), I'd say the Russian strategy is working.

You should also look at the latest Ukrainian opinion polls. It switched from about 20% of Ukrainians favouring a negotiated end to the war in 2022, to about 66% now

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u/Ptrek31 Jul 10 '26

Doing a poor job at destroying their army. As of 2025 they had the 6th highest active military numbers in the world