the willing went to front at the start , now remember how much left the country at the start of the war , were they less than the Russians who left at the start of mobilization .
you say the beating was debunked , what about the rest of videos . do you really believe that willing recruits were enough to fill the lines at the meat grinder called Bakhmut
There are 2 different issue here.
1.) Was there force drafting?
2.) Was that widespread?
Again, you are showing me 1 video purporting people being draft on the street, whether or not it is true, that does not mean this is a widespread occurrence, this is one such occurrence, and that's even if I concede that is what they were doing on the street.
On the other hand, even with 1 million strong army (Which is kind of a wishful thinking) are you saying Ukraine won't be able to get that given they have 45 million population and only 8 million left Ukraine? Again, you are talking about 1/30 Ukrainian willing to fight, given the recent few post that show up to 80% of Ukrainian are willing to fight, that number can be easily achieved.
To have people draft in like that in a large scale to pop up your military, you would have to have a very low volunteer rate, lower than 50% (which is 1 out of 2 refused draft) If this is the case, the morale of Ukrainian would be very low, and if Russia still can't make their push with that low morale where soldier were being draft off the street, that's actually even worse for the Russian military....
Bakhmut is a very small city, pre-war, you are talking about 100,000 population, which mean you probably can only have around 2 to 3 brigade holding Bakhmut at any one time, that's 12,000 men, how many people do you think was killed in Bakhmut? When it was Russia who attacking? The latest intel suggest Ukrainian loses 12,000 men, where Russia loses is up to 20,000. Which considering traditional casualty estimate which is 1 to 3 toward the Russian (3 Russian killed per each Ukrainian) if they have Air and Artillery superiority. Which mean that casualty number is very much "Pro-Russian", even with that number, it wouldn't break Ukrainian Military just in Bakhmut....
Ukraine army has 74 brigades. It raising 8 more brigades. So will be 82 brigades in total.
That will be a challenge for Putin to raise the numbers of Russia brigades to 82x 3.
The measure with Russia army increasing to 1.5 million men probably not enough.
more than 8 Brigade......
They are working on 200,000 militia as far as I know, that's 45 Brigade worth of men, this is what the UK, NATO country is doing, they weren't training regular Ukrainian military in UK or Germany or Poland or France. They were training civilian militiaman to become soldier......