I agree.
I’m just not sure how many more able-bodied, willing, fighting-age males they have left. Their forces are getting ground into dust daily via Russian artillery.
My understanding was that a good number of their military were/are mercenaries. Not sure what the difficulty might be (might have been) in recruiting home-grown troops.
I heard there was a mass of men heading for the exits when they saw the movie about to be played.
I can see truth in that.
“Not sure what the difficulty might be (might have been) in recruiting home-grown troops.”
Second, they had over 6,000 mercenaries. It is now down to 3,000. Many have died; many have left after they had an opportunity to see how bad the situation was. Ukraine’s oligarchs had hired 1,000 Americans and 3,000 other mercs. A week ago after two of ours were captured the Pentagon sent out a message to Ukraine that they wanted American mercs to leave Ukraine within the month.
Third, there is an ongoing (and almost funny) routine going on of authorities trying to “catch” people and writing them an immediate summons. The authorities used to be in uniform; but that gave advance warning to the “hiders” out and about in public and they got a running head start to avoid capture. (Videos on the net quite funny.)
Authorities wised up and no longer “recruit” in uniform and are catching more that way, though many military age men have left the country.
Fourth, 80% of Ukrainians are not “political” and don’t care who is leading the country. They are well aware of the unbelievably high casualty rates and do anything they can to avoid that fate.
Fifth, and most important most of the suitable men are dead or wounded or are already in the fight.