Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military - official
Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military - official
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.
What a dire situation.
Wars suck so much.
To be honest, I don't want to be forced to kill other human beings because of some shitty politicians who decided so.
It makes me sick to the bone.
This is really well represented in, All quiet on the western front.
They don't have a choice. It is this or being Russian slaves.
They don't have a choice. It is this or being Russian slaves.
Hey, thank you for your insightful comment!
Could you please expand on that and tell me more about people in Crimea and other liberated cities being Russian slaves?
Also while you are at it - could you please also explain to me how being unable to leave your country where you can be kidnapped on a street at any day and sent to die is not considered slavery / is better than "being Russian slave"? How did that happen that "Russian slaves" can move to Ukraine controlled territories at any time and supposedly stop being slaves, but those who are on Ukraine controlled territories cannot do the opposite (and yet for some reason you wouldn't consider them slaves)?
It's so disturbing to see libs cheer on the meat grinder
Statists are monsters, it does not matter which is the colour of their ideas.
To all statists, the penalty for the crime of conscription is that I will exterminate all of your officers and officials. I will expunge the myth of your nation like the disease that it is.
Death to the egregores !
lol forced.
The wording of these things. While technically correct, it’s a draft. Because you know, the thousand day invasion threatening their existence.
Conscription is usually an ongoing event. A draft is a specific, often temporary, implementation of conscription.
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?What
Forced? Their fighting for their survival for fuck's sake.
Are you contesting that it's "Forced"? It matches the textbook definition of the word
They are forced. They fight against the Ukrainian Army for their survival, because being drafted means they will probably die at this point. If they could keep avoiding the army, they would probably survive until this madness ends.
You can have your side on this and think Ukraine is fighting for survival, but that's a point of view, an idea. Some facts are:
- Ukraine is currently loosing this war. It's even territorial.
- Ukraine is loosing support from their allies. And if Trump wins, which is somehow plausible, they'd be practically alone.
- Recently drafted citizens are just that, they are not soldiers. With their morale, they probably aren't even fighters.
- A good chunk of the remaining Ukrainian people don't want to fight no more.
- Drafting more inexperienced citizens will at best slow down the course of the current events.
Sure, but have you considered rytheon stock price?
Yeah the conscription can be pretty violent
The only "fight for survival" is against Zelensky.