I know there's plenty of scope for this mobilisation to backfire (fingers very much crossed!) but when I see all these videos of ill-disciplined drunks, part of me thinks Putin knows exactly what he's doing. Where there are breakthroughs, and land retaken by sheer weight of numbers, these are the lowlife that torture and rape and want their reward for being displaced from their homes and families... many of whom are probably secretly quite pleased to be rid of them.
Thousands like that added to the occupied areas may not help Russian defence in the end, but the civilian population will suffer even more, displacing/killing more Ukrainians and swinging the population balance towards Russian sympathisers. The long game, as ever.
Ukraine has proved to be a formidable opponent, but I think they're in for a brutal few months... or what's left of the command structure of the Russian army will implode under the weight of trying to assimilate conscripts, and be routed.