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.
Even Ukrainians are now starting to understand what western backed regime is doing to them
This is so fucking bleak man
Women might be dragged into the battlefield soon. Ukraine should give up.
What a dire situation.
I wonder how we got here.
lol forced.
The wording of these things. While technically correct, it’s a draft. Because you know, the thousand day invasion threatening their existence.
go sign up for the foreign legion turd
That’s literally what forced means. Are you an Israeli or something?
It’s the negative connotation of the wording that I was implying, not the meaning.
Are you American or something?
He is implying Ukrainians are not drafted Israel style. There is no 30 day prison vacation for refusing to obey. These people are thrown in the back of a van and transported to the battlefield to slightly extend what is already a lost war.
The west is not serious about supporting Ukraine to victory. That much should be obvious by now. Even the mainstream newspapers are saying Ukraine is not fighting to win now.
I’m not Israeli though. What is Israeli style. Israel is not being invaded.
Without sending troops, there isn’t much else the west can do beyond allowing deep strikes with their missiles which I agree should never have been an issue.
Again though, conscription via a draft while forced yes, is not the inference of the wording of the article. It’s trying to paint Ukraine in a bad light for having to do it vs Russia who have done worse for their manpower goals.
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
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Forced? Their fighting for their survival for fuck’s sake.
Yeah, when the nazi press gang shows up that is what they’re doing, huh?
no dear, that’s the palestinians. the ukrainians will be mostly fine once this war is finally over.
Are you contesting that it’s “Forced”? It matches the textbook definition of the word
Yeah the conscription can be pretty violent
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It is when that border comes to your home though surely.
Are we all forgetting what an invasion is or something?
no, and please don’t start defending next to my house, thanks
I hope it never comes
yeah, me too
The people who are forced to the frontline certainly do.
The only “fight for survival” is against Zelensky.
