Kiev has already pressed more than a million men into service but needs more MP Alexey Goncharenko has said Read Full Article at RTcom

Kiev will conscript 160,000 more troops over the next three months, according to statements from lawmakers and media outlets. More than a million soldiers have already been drafted, yet high losses have left the Ukrainian Armed Forces plagued by manpower shortages.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces had around 250,000 active-duty personnel at the beginning of 2022, a number that rapidly swelled once Vladimir Zelensky called up reservists and forbade draft-age men from leaving the country.

This spring, faced with mounting losses, Kiev lowered the draft age from 27 to 25 and significantly tightened mobilization rules, requiring potential recruits to report to conscription offices for “data validation.” These checks often result in people being immediately taken into the army and sent to the front line.

  • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
    1326·
    6 days ago

    Because you know, the thousand day invasion threatening their existence.

    Whose existence?
    Seriously, what kind of mental gymnastics one needs to do to consider this a valid argument…
    Show me, how is the existence of people on liberated territories (like Crimea, Melitopol and so on) are threatened?
    Or maybe those people are actually okay (well, at least relatively to those of us who are still stuck on Zelensky controlled territories…) and it’s the lives of those whom Zelensky can still reach are threatened, because his regime can kidnap them at any moment and send to the meatgrinder?

      • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org
        66·
        6 days ago

        Is it better to be drafted now, or wait until Putin has another territory to “liberate”

        Are you absolutely seriously asking whether it is better to almost cetrainly die now, or have a chance of dying in some hypothetical situation later? I’ll choose the latter every single time, thank you…

        Is it suddenly ok when it’s Russia drafting “free” Ukrainians from those “liberated” territories?

        No, it’s also not OK. It doesn’t happen on even remotely similar scale to what Zelensky is doing.

        Are the kidnapped children free now? Happy? Doubtful.

        Probably not.
        At least they are alive in contrast to all the men Zelensky’s regime kidnapped and sent to die.

        Living there, it seems like you live your normal life. But you can’t express your thoughts, there are topics you can’t discuss, you can’t go where you want. You live like a spider in a jar. You are kept inside, and you run in circles like horses in a circus ring. Those who expect Ukraine to save us are having a hard time. It’s hard on morale. You’re not allowed to speak about Ukraine; Ukrainian symbols are banned. If you hear something, or say something they think is wrong, they grab you and put you in a basement.

        So, the same as in Ukraine, but without the kidnappings and with an ability to leave at any time.