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Zelensky Signs Law Allowing Ukrainians Over 60 to Join Military in Limited Roles
The Libertarian Institute.org ^ | 31JUL2025 | Kyle Anzalone

Posted on 08/03/2025 8:24:00 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide

Ukrainians aged 60 and older can now serve in non-combat roles thanks to new legislation. The elderly Ukrainians will need special approval and get medical clearance before enlisting.

The law was passed by the Ukrainian legislature earlier this month and signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, allowing people over the age of 60 to serve in limited roles until martial law in Ukraine is lifted.

While the current martial law authorization is set to lapse next month, Zelensky has requested that lawmakers extend it for an additional 90 days. Zelensky’s presidential term has already expired, and he has used martial law to remain in office.

Zelensky signed the law increasing the age limit as Ukraine continues to struggle with manpower in the war with Russia. Last year, Ukraine lowered its draft age from 27 to 25, but has resisted calls from the US to drop it to 18.

Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod explained earlier this month that her country was facing a severe manpower shortage, saying, “Our main problem is people. Nobody is giving us people.”

The MP said that even if President Donald Trump sent more weapons to Ukraine, the “war cannot last forever.”


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To: delta7

Stop talking about that!

Have you not noticed, polls went negative on the war around 2023. Then, suddenly all the politicians no longer brag about how they voted to send more money and weapons to Ukraine.

In the beginning every politician was seen in front of weapons destined to Ukraine, shaking hands with Mr. Z and promising him billions more.

Now we arm and finance this war in silence or even secrecy.


21 posted on 08/03/2025 9:25:25 AM PDT by Red6
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To: blackdog

Put Putin and Zel in a rm together. Fight to the death. No more civilians killed. You 2 wanna fight so badly
YOU die for your country.


22 posted on 08/03/2025 9:26:51 AM PDT by Singermom
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To: Kazan

LOL, that was a simple fact based post, there was no speculation, or fantasy, or even a mention of shortages or manpower needs, just a simple mention of enlistment and draft changes in the Russian military.

Your off-topic defensive post was revealing though, of your living in an imaginary world that shuts out even such simple information of Russian enlistments and their draft.


23 posted on 08/03/2025 9:28:32 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Tom Tetroxide

“Ukrainian MP Anna Skorokhod explained earlier this month that her country was facing a severe manpower shortage, saying, “Our main problem is people. Nobody is giving us people.””

Says Anna, the 35 year old with no kids and who never faces the risk of going to the front.


24 posted on 08/03/2025 9:28:46 AM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: fuzzylogic

“””‘Allowing’? More like conscripting.”””

Allowing volunteers to enlist is not a military draft, that is really bizarre logic.


25 posted on 08/03/2025 9:30:46 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: delta7

Raparations will be extracted from Russia.


26 posted on 08/03/2025 9:34:38 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: ransomnote

“”””That’s pathetic. Zelensky has been conscripting the old, disabled or otherwise unfit and giving them an hour or two of training before sending them to the front lines.””””

Then who are all those troops that President Trump has American troops training, and who are being trained by other NATO countries?


27 posted on 08/03/2025 9:34:56 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: dforest

See post 11 about senior citizens, it was all covered on FR, back in 2023.


28 posted on 08/03/2025 9:37:16 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Kazan
Just the opposite -- Russia in only using a fraction of its troops in Ukraine, holding the rest back in the event of a direct war with NATO.

97% of Russian forces are in or on the edges of Ukraine, it's why Prigozhin was able to do a cannonball run on Moscow. He made it further than the Russians did in Ukraine.

29 posted on 08/03/2025 9:49:33 AM PDT by Brellium (The environment is of upmost importance, without trees where will we hang Moscovites?)
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To: Tom Tetroxide
They've been grabbing men and boys off the streets for a few years - this kind of article is just psyops, "Oh we're doing well but we may need to change the age range." Someone else pointed out that the rich young males from influential families know whom to pay so they can go party at nightclubs every night without any fear of conscription.


JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼
x.com ^ | Mar 1, 2025 | DC_Draino @DC_Draino

Posted on 3/24/2025, 4:04:34 PM by ransomnote

 

https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1895952522889793703

Mar 1, 2025 · 15.1M Views

 

 

 

 

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼 , ransomnote wrote:

I went back to look at the man more closely. Given he's running for his life, his stride is short and unsure, and he quickly falls on uneven ground. This person does seem older, stiff in the joints and without stamina to make it around a corner.

And again he looks stiff and rather weak, unsteady on his feet as he's dragged to the car, he almost has the strength of an older woman (not a slam - I'm saying he's quite limited for a male facing death - this is his best adrenalin response)

But this has been a complaint now for almost 2 years - they were sending barely trained conscripts, people who didn't know how to hold weapons, out to the front lines and there was a report, loudly denounced as "lies, all lies" which said the more experienced men on the front lines said these unwitting conscripts last no more than 2 hours.

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼 , Jonty30 wrote:

I said it was heading towards 100%. That usually happens when you hit 95% of the population and still want the war to continue.

This was a war to eliminate Ukrainians, so the land could be populated by third worlders. There was never any intent to have a Ukraine, as we know it, after the war.

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/10/06/after-the-end-of-the-conflict-ukraine-may-be-populated-by-africans-and-afghans-paniotto

Ukraine To Force 30,000 People Into Conscription Every Month
ShiftPlan ^ | April 10, 2025 | Mac Slavo

Posted on 4/10/2025, 4:19:07 PM by tennmountainman

Ukraine is demanding that 30,000 people be conscripted to fight in the war every single month. Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Aleksandr Syrsky, has said Kiev must mobilize 30,000 soldiers every month to sustain resistance against the Russian army. In an interview published on Wednesday by the Ukrainian outlet lb.ua, Syrsky claimed that Russia can mobilize up to 5 million trained and experienced troops, with a total potential force of 20 million. He emphasized this gap to underscore the urgency of Ukraine’s continued mobilization amid mounting battlefield pressure.

(Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...

 

; rellic
  • In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼 , McGruff wrote:

    A whole collection of Ukrainian abductions here:

    https://x.com/hashtag/UkrainianMobilization?src=hashtag_click

     
     
    Soror Inimicorum 🇷🇺🇺🇸☦️
    @SororInimicorum
    ·
    Feb 28
    UkroNazi police grabs a guy in the street, and instantly Zelensky‘s military mobilization jackals arrive to haul him into their death van. Ukroids say since Jan 1 they kidnapped over 44K Ukrainian men. #UkrainianMobilization 👈click… #Ukraine #UkraineWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal
     
     
     
    https://x.com/besthealthyou/status/1790488779133726956

    Best Health 4 You
    @besthealthyou
    ·
    May 14, 2024
    Some brave #Ukrainian #women in #Kharkiv. The military commissars took a man on street as a part of forceful #UkrainianMobilization. Women interfered and a man was able to escape. A police officer stayed in his car and didn't get involve in this situation. #Zelensky is desperate
     
     
    verlinde
    @verlinde1304
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    Jan 8
    Devinez le pays où ils attrapent des hommes dans la rue, les tabassent, les humilient et les envoient mourir pour l'OTAN et #LGBT (« valeurs occidentales » 🤮 )… c'est vrai : #Ukraine . #UkrainianMobilization 📷 cliquez… #Ukraine #UkraineWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal
     
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    verlinde @verlinde1304 · Jan 8 Guess the country where they grab men in the street, beat them up, humiliate them, and send them to die for NATO and #LGBT ("Western values" 🤮 )... it's true: #Ukraine. #UkrainianMobilization 📷 click... #Ukraine #UkraineWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal
     
     

https://x.com/SororInimicorum/status/1894043242422841406

Soror Inimicorum 🇷🇺🇺🇸☦️ @SororInimicorum Also, in Kharkov, #Ukraine, #Zelensky‘s military mobilization squad is hauling a guy to their death van. Kharkov is an entirely ethnic Russian city persuaded by 30 years of USAID propaganda that they r Ukraine. And now they pay for that. #UkrainianMobilization 👈click…

 

https://x.com/SororInimicorum/status/1896918702823792725 Soror Inimicorum 🇷🇺🇺🇸☦️ @SororInimicorum · Mar 4 Yes, this is Ukraine! Zelensky‘s military mobilization thugs extracting their new victim out of his car. No worries, they’ll bring him back a month or so later in a coffin. #UkrainianMobilization 👈click… #Ukraine #UkraineWar #ZelenskyWarCriminal

ransomnote: The woman in the passenger seat tries to hold on to him, to keep him from being pulled from the truck. She cries, yells, and when her man is finally pulled from the truck to the ground, she screams. By the time they get him out of the truck, the man with the hat has a fair amount of blood on his face- this victim fought back HARD.
At the first link I followed, there's a post of carefree young people dancing the night away in a club with text that explains that those who pay do not have to fear conscription. Just pay.
147 posted on 3/24/2025, 9:38:28 PM by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
 

 

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼 , McGruff wrote:

A whole collection of Ukrainian abductions here:

https://x.com/hashtag/UkrainianMobilization?src=hashtag_click

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼 , JonPreston wrote:
JD VANCE: "you're running out of Troops"

Ya think?

Desperate for money and men, Ukraine is using violent press gangs to snatch soldiers from the streets
 
02/29/2024 7:53:30 PM PST · by RandFan · 33 replies
Daily Mail ^ | Feb 29 | DAVID PATRIKARAKOS
The war in Ukraine has always seemed a strange blend of the contemporary and the historic. During my visits to various fronts, I have watched soldiers livestream drone battles on flat screens, explain to me how AI is helping them better target the enemy, and I have spent time in trenches that wouldn’t look out of place in World War I. I was reminded of this when a Ukrainian friend recently told me about the growing problem of press gangs there. Not too long ago, he and some friends got off at Kyiv train station and were immediately swarmed by...
 
 
 
Former UK SecDef urges Ukraine to conscript more 'young blood' (avg age on front line over 40!)
 
10/02/2023 5:39:30 PM PDT · by BusterDog · 47 replies
https :// english . almayadeen . net / news / politics / former - uk - secdef - urges - ukraine - to - conscript - more - young - blood ^ | 10/02/23
Former UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace claimed that Kiev is making progress in its counter-offensive. However, to achieve their objectives, President Vladimir Zelensky needs to deploy a larger number of younger Ukrainians into the conflict, while the Western nations supply them with the necessary weaponry to overcome Russia. In an article published in The Telegraph on Sunday, Wallace said, “The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40. I understand President Zelensky’s desire to preserve the young for the future, but… just as Britain did in 1939 and 1941, perhaps it is time to reassess the scale...

30 posted on 08/03/2025 10:02:20 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: fruser1

“Limited to the front lines”

LOL.


31 posted on 08/03/2025 10:06:15 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Red6

Or they could increase their Forced Conscription Squads
And Raid Kiev Gay Bath Houses. Round them up and send them
To the Front Lines after a Day of Training.


32 posted on 08/03/2025 10:10:43 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: ansel12

...unless you’re aware of “volunteering” by being dragged off the street into vans.

If you’re not aware...I suggest you look a little deeper, there’s plenty of evidence online.


33 posted on 08/03/2025 10:18:27 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: tennmountainman
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34 posted on 08/03/2025 10:19:13 AM PDT by ANKE69 (“I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.” Vitali Klitschko)
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To: ransomnote; All

Thanks for posting.


35 posted on 08/03/2025 10:24:30 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

The globalists must exterminate the men in order to Make Ukraine Muslim Again (MUMA)


36 posted on 08/03/2025 10:28:28 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

Reminiscent of the last days of Nazi Germany when the Krauts went to a 12-to-61 military age range in futile defense of Berlin.


37 posted on 08/03/2025 10:37:10 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: ANKE69

Ah. The “Rainbow” City of Kiev.


38 posted on 08/03/2025 10:42:42 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: fuzzylogic

That is a totally different topic and not about the 60 year olds allowed to enlist, and you have no idea about those draft evaders, common arrests and draft evaders being arrested in public is a normal function, we publicly arrest people and we arrested draft dodgers in public during our 33 years of the draft, I would think that even Russia looks for guys evading the draft.


39 posted on 08/03/2025 11:00:44 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Tom Tetroxide

So does that mean that when they were dragging off men and women over sixty and under 15 sending them il equipped and un prepared to be slaughtered in battle, they were breaking the law? But now it’s legal?


40 posted on 08/03/2025 11:17:33 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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