What do you view the major factor determining Moscow's ability to recruit soldiers?

Well, regarding the data and the discrepancies, I think it's important to mention that this whole system of paying huge bonuses for recruitment was established essentially in the year 2024.

It existed before with much smaller numbers, but in the second half of 2024, Putin compelled regions to pay a minimum of 400,000 rubles per recruit, and the federal budget also started paying 400,000.

So this is when these big amounts of money were actually becoming relevant, and that's also when the region started to reliably publish this data.

The data I have before, so the first half of 2024, is also extrapolated but from a smaller data set.

There were not 40 regions back then publishing it.

So that's, so the quality of the data improved afterwards.

But yes.