Posted on 04/04/2024 9:36:05 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Soldiers in Ukraine are veering increasingly older as the country grapples with a shortage of soldiers after roughly 20 months of brutal fighting against Russia.
As countless casualties have hampered Ukraine's forces, the average age of a soldier in the country is currently around 43 years old, Time magazine reported last week.
That average is up by nearly 10 years from March 2022, one month after the war began, when the average age of a Ukrainian soldier was between 30 and 35 years old, according to FT.
"They're grown men now, and they aren't that healthy to begin with," a close aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Time. "This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia."
Ukraine does not release the number of deaths or injuries among its troops, but Western officials said in August the war's total casualty (killed and injured) toll was nearing 500,000.
As the war drags on, Zelenskyy is concerned international support for the country is waning, he told Time. Less than half of Americans still support Congress giving more weapons to Ukraine, according to an October Reuters poll, where 35% disagreed and the remaining respondents were unsure.
A longtime member of Zelenskyy's team told Time the president feels betrayed by Ukraine's Western allies who he sees as having only given the country what it needs to survive the war but not beat Russia for good.
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Utter destruction of an entire generation.
WWI wiped out a generation of Brits and hastened/caused the end of the British empire. And worse.
Instead, this is a BS war.
I support Ukraine because I believe that they have a right to self-determination and independence.
Won't happen. We have zero tolerance for taking casualties.
Well, Putin can stop any time...
We have the greatest keyboard warriors in the history of mankind. :-P
Nah. The Russian trolls have us beat.
Media ADMITS Ukraine Is COLLAPSING!!!
by Dr. Steve Turley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H48xQOz38Zk&ab_channel=Dr.SteveTurley
FAFO. Coups have consequences
“A longtime member of Zelenskyy’s team told Time the president feels betrayed by Ukraine’s Western allies who he sees as having only given the country what it needs to survive the war but not beat Russia for good.”
Also, the article is blind to the young boys being conscripted.
Russian casualties are almost at 450 thousand. At half a million Putin gets a set of steak knives!
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That article was propaganda. The Ukrainians have been conscripting boys as young as 15 years of age. They grab males off the streets while their wives, children try to hold on to him. They've ordered pizza and conscripted the delivery man. They hang out in bombshelters and conscript males that show up, to the point that men won't use bomb shelters.
A FReeper watched a video of the forcible conscription of a disabled 70 year old man. Zelenksy has to the public they should all (including women) expect to fight.
A bargain then… at that rate he’ll get all of Ukraine for a couple of mill, not to mention the steak knives.
Well, he still has to get it...
They always say the only thing certain about war is when and how it starts. The finish is always an unknown. This war should of had negotiations to end it BEFORE it started. Putting Ukraine in NATO had always been bad news according to NATO . But we have a clueless one in White House and in other countries.
The elites and neocons of both parties had a goal and they always want war. When billions of dollars are spread around they get to peel off billions for themselves knowing too their families will not be involved as warriors. They tried to turn Zelensky into a hero.
It is all an outrage by elites against the little people that lose their communities, countries, homes and families.
“Killing a generation of white Christians. It’s their dream come true.”
That’s been going on for a while by elites with the Oxycodone, Fentanyl, drugs. and add in the stupid neocon wars. Are we all that gullible and stupid to allow this to occur?
Reportedly, those kids are in a military high school class. They are not yet in the Army. The age for conscription was just lowered to 25 from 27 and those high school kids are too young to enlist. Try to keep up.
Reportedly, those are high school students in a military class. They are not in the army or fighting at the front.
Yes. If Poland had not attacked Nazi Germany, the Nazis would have never invaded Poland. Similar logic to your post supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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