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Strong evidence is emerging that suggests the Russian military has begun using women in assault units in Ukraine for the first time, after recruiting them from penal colonies.
This development is directly related to a deepening recruitment crisis: according to the latest data from the Kremlin budget, in the second quarter of this year the number of "volunteers" who agreed to sign a contract with the army fell by 59% compared to the same period in 2024, a contraction of over 50 thousand people.
Russians no longer seem to be fooled by the money offered to shed blood in the name of Putin's geopolitical ambitions.
Meanwhile, in the Donbas, critical voices have begun to be heard within the ranks of the most important Russian fighters, denouncing the Kremlin's handling of the war. Some of them are calling for a total mobilization of 1.5 million troops to break the blockade. Inside Russia itself, the situation is becoming tense: reports and videos of kilometer-long queues at gas stations have increased significantly, after Ukrainian drones struck key refineries that supplied 17% of Russia's domestic fuel in July and August.
But does this mean that Russia is losing the war? Not necessarily. Vladimir Putin can still achieve some of his military and political objectives.
However, this situation shows that Ukraine is not defeated, as some voices try to portray. On the contrary, Kiev still has the opportunity to humiliate the enemy and emerge from this war as a free and independent state on over 80% of its territory. It still has "the cards in its hand," as Donald Trump would say.
Wars are always a breeding ground for propaganda, no wonder. But if we turn off the propaganda noise, a clear truth emerges: this is not World War I, with two fronts dragging each other along the trenches; it is not World War II, with tanks breaking through lines and advancing for miles. And it is not the Ukraine war of 2022 either.
Drones and artificial intelligence have transformed the conflict in a way that no one had anticipated, not even the leaders involved.
Today we have a war that is no longer won by Soviet-style strategy, as Putin believes, but by the combined power of the industrial and technological base. This is a clash between production systems and the capacity for innovation in the air war of the future. A pilot in Kiev can control a drone that strikes targets hundreds of kilometers away. Hundreds of drones fight every day on the front lines, often commanded by artificial intelligence algorithms, rather than human troops.
This new reality must fundamentally change the way Europe, and especially Italy, helps Ukraine. Everything else today is secondary and only distracts us from what is truly urgent.
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