Putin's address and announcement of "partial" mobilization is primarily an admission of defeat in this so-called special operation of his.

This was stated by the opposition politician and journalist Ihor Yakovenko in an interview with Obozrevatel, answering the question whether this is an actual recognition that the president of the aggressor country cannot win this war with the available forces.

"This recognition of the obvious - that the 'special operation' failed, this whole adventure with a war against a large European country, which is Ukraine, was madness from the very beginning, and it ended in an obvious failure," Yakovenko noted.

It will be recalled that in Russia, 

in the law on mobilization, the clause

, which refers to the number of people who are planned to be called up, has been classified.

This happened because 

the Russian authorities plan to conscript one million Russians into the war against Ukraine

. 

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