Ukraine Claims Russia Hiring More Mercenaries Despite Massive MobilizationUkraine has accused the Russian military of hiring mercenaries in the ongoing war despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent partial mobilization.Despite Putin's mobilization, the Institute for the Study of War recently published a report on Russia's offensive campaign and said that the Kremlin leader was failing to please "three main factions" of Russian nationalists with his military efforts.Following the criticism from both Kadyrov and Prigozhin, a Russian military expert, Oleg Zhdanov, recently spoke with a Ukrainian radio station and said the two members of Russia's elite "will shake up the situation to overthrow Putin."While speaking with Newsweek earlier this week, Seth Jones, director of the International Security Program and the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that Putin's mobilization is putting "poorly trained, poorly equipped forces" on the battlefield that are having "significant difficulties.""We're seeing that repeatedly in tactical levels of the fight right now, which is just poorly trained, poorly equipped Russian forces, and this mobilization is not solving these problems," Jones told Newsweek."