Putin may soon face a shortage of recruits – ISW

This is stated in the latest ISW report.

The Russian conscription system generates roughly 260,000 new soldiers each year. Putin may need to consider expanding conscript service in order to obtain an increased mobilization resource in the future.

But demographics do not favor such an approach. Roughly 800,000 young men turn 18 each year in Russia. “Expanding conscription much beyond the 260,000 of those already forced into military service risks not only taking young men with physical conditions unsuitable for war but also beginning to pull too many young men out of the Russian economy, which Putin is simultaneously attempting to put on a war footing,” the report reads. 

• Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) chief Bruno Kahl said that Russia might mobilize up to a million soldiers for the war against Ukraine.