NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned young Russian men they are being “sold a raw deal” if they agree to fight in Ukraine, citing the tens of thousands of Russian casualties each month. It “will probably be you,” rather than an abstract figure, he said in his recent speech during the first-ever NATO-Ukraine Council held in Kyiv. He framed Moscow’s mobilization drive as a system that treats new recruits as expendable rather than as professional soldiers.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “You are being sold a raw deal,” he said. “Men like you who join the fight, you won’t be trained. The equipment they’ll provide you is substandard.” Addressing his remarks directly to potential conscripts, Rutte said that young men who heed the Kremlin’s call are likely to be deployed with little to no proper training and equipment, leaving them with a high chance of being killed or wounded. “There is a very high chance you’ll die or be wounded while you’re out there. And odds are that if you are wounded, you will be left to suffer in the mud and die. So when we talk about tens of thousands of Russian casualties, that’s not abstract. That will probably be you.” Rutte, who in earlier remarks has said that in a single month, Russia is now losing more than the Soviet Union lost over its entire 10-year war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, cited NATO estimates of more than 30,000 Russian casualties per month.