Kremlin instructed to mobilize 300,000 troops for new offensive

In the near future, the Russian authorities plan to mobilize at least 300,000 troops to begin an operation to encircle the second largest city in Ukraine – Kharkiv, four informed sources told Verstka.
"The next in the plan is Kharkiv and holding the city. This is possible only in the case of the encirclement. There is a shortage of 300,000 troops. Therefore, everything is ready for mobilization 2.0," said a source of the publication in the internal political block of the presidential administration.
According to him, "no one wants to turn Kharkiv into a second Mariupol," so "there is an idea" to make it a showcase of how Russians "know how to fight in a civilized way."
The need to mobilize 300,000 troops was confirmed by one of Verstka’s sources from one of the Western Military District offices. The source noted that recruitment to the front could begin as early as March 25.
They’ll first try to call reservists to fight in Ukraine – men who are in reserve, but have signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence on inclusion in the mobilization human reserve. They can work at any job, but twice a year they are obliged to go to military training camps, which until 2022 were formal. There are about two million of them in Russia.
"Something is planned. Reservists are being recruited now, before mobilization. Whether it will happen or not, I do not know, but last time the procedure was the same," says an officer of one of the military bases in the Zabaykalsky Krai of Russia.
Also, military enlistment offices will begin work with those who have not signed contracts with the Ministry of Defense but are in the reserve of the armed forces. Including those dismissed from service, those who studied at military universities, those who did not serve for any reason, those who completed alternative civilian service and women with military specialties. Military enlistment offices have pasted mobilization orders into military tickets of many of them previously.
They will also try to send conscripts to the war, whose terms are about to end. "The task is to sign contracts with those who are ending their service by April, and those who ended service last year," says a source close to the presidential administration. They will be "persuaded by all means", the interlocutor from the presidential administration confirmed. A new wave of mobilization is also possible.