This is also quite the admission from the Guardian:
“In December Ukraine’s top soldier, Valery Zaluzhny, told The Economist there was no immediate need for massive mobilisation; his main problems were armour and munitions. Sources within the general staff insist that is still the case. Moreover, there are natural limits to the numbers of soldiers Ukraine can absorb, says Viktor Kevlyuk, a reserve colonel. “You can’t mobilise 6,000 if your training ranges can only hold 3,000,” he says.”
“But force ratios, which once favoured Ukraine, have since tilted back towards Russia, which has mobilised at least 250,000 men since September. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military leadership has been charged with building a reserve in advance of an expected counter-offensive. New Western hardware is arriving, and it needs to be manned. And heavy attrition rates in close-contact fighting on the eastern front, around the embattled town of Bakhmut, need to be balanced with new men.”
Yeah, they’re just putting warm bodies in Bakhmut trenches. Easy burial by artillery.
God, please, end this war.
Seeing as the average survival time at the front is only 4 hours, even if they weren’t disabled I can see why they would be reluctant to be drafted. It would be like volunteering for a suicide mission. It’s also pointless and futile as Ukraine’s chance of winning is zilch.