Posted on 12/19/2023 2:06:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
As the war drags on, Ukraine is struggling to replace the exhausted troops who have spent two years at the front.
Twenty-two months after the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian army is struggling to find new recruits to send to the front, according to military officials.
“Our units are understaffed,” said Major Oleksandr Volkov, commander of a battalion of the 24th mechanised brigade. “We need young people, under 40, and motivated.”
This was exactly the advantage that Russia always had over Ukraine: more manpower, together with the willingness to send an indefinite number of men - be they prepared or not - to fight and die at the front.
According to 2023 data from Global Firepower, the Ukrainian army counted around 500,000 servicemen, 200,000 of which are active military personnel. By comparison, Russia has about four times more active military personnel - 1,330,900 men - and 250,000 reservists, the same as Ukraine.
“Today’s society has probably been misled by some media, claiming that everything is fine (for the Ukrainian army), that we are defeating the enemy and that victory will take place in the near future,” Volkov said. “But the current situation is not so simple. The enemy is really very strong, very powerful. And we do everything to hold him back and beat him.”
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BiXiden needs to offer up Hunter.
Linda Grahmnastry should go volunteer too.
There will be lots of land for whomever buys the land from whatever is left of the Ukrainian government.
They could have taken the peace agreement 2 years ago. But then, thbey wouldn’t have gotten hundreds of millions to spread around among the various pols involved.
True evil is sacrificing 100,000 people to line your own pockets.
Plenty of staffers on Capitol Hill, all the Congress critters who support this war, their family members are all great candidates to go to the front line.
Maybe Rev Mom could organize a brigade to take over to Ukraine?
“Ukraine’s army is short of new troops to send to the frontline”
what happened to all of the old troops?
They ran out of twelve-year-olds?
>Maybe Rev Mom could organize a brigade to take over to Ukraine?<
I’ve offered to buy her a one way ticket to Ukraine but revmommy never responded to my post.
AND she’s got military age, able-bodied kids that could join her in her globohomo hero Zelensky’s trenches.
But no, they sit in safety here in America urging others to lose their lives for the Zelensky Money Laundering Operation.
Don't forget Denys Davydov.
Crisis, crisis ... Ukraine Army has run out of cannon fodder!!!!!!
While what you say is true. US/NATO could have prevented it by not announcing -- in 2008 -- that UKR will join NATO.
UKR could have been a neutral buffer state that facilitated trade and cultural exchange between the East and the West.
NATO could not stand to let that happen. So here we are.
“Plenty of staffers on Capitol Hill,...”
I can think of one who has just become available.
What happens if a million young men fall on the battle field? Two million babies are not born.
We have millions of army age immigrants that we should send over immediately as gesture of humanitarian aid.
Maybe Israel gives free one-way passage to Palestinians to go to Ukraine?
In the old days - no kidding - that is more or less what happened to the Scots and Irish. The British drove them off their land, and the sons of peasants ended up going off to be troops in foreign armies. They were all over the British Empire, and everywhere with the Napoleonic wars, American frontier wars ... everywhere. Scattering their blue eyes and red haired genes around the world.
My grandmother’s family fled this region of the world over 100 years ago because farmers were being kidnapped to fight wars there. Now Biden is threatening to draft/kidnap Americans and send them back to to this same region to fight wars. What is this curse?
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