About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year
Ukraine needs 500,000 more troops amid slowing mobilization
Posted on 12/01/2024 3:38:47 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Last month, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing intelligence and undisclosed sources, reported a grim milestone: about one million Ukrainians and Russians have been killed or wounded since the war began.
According to government figures, in the first half of 2024, three times as many people died in Ukraine as were born, the WSJ reported.
Population loss is one of the reasons why Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has refused to mobilise men aged 18-25, as most of them have not had children yet... The eligible age range for Ukraine’s military is 25 to 60.
Joachim Giaminardi, NRC’s advocacy manager in Ukraine, told Al Jazeera that the conflict has widened.
“We are seeing an expansion of the conflict, both geographically and in terms of the frequency and intensity of the attacks,” Giaminardi said. “The people who are paying the price are civilians.”
Marina Miron, a researcher at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, told Al Jazeera that governments do not publicly report on their casualties to avoid giving the enemy information on how effective their operations have been.
If a government does not officially accept a soldier as dead, it manages to evade the obligation to pay the families of the deceased, which has become a problem in Russia and Ukraine, she added.
Miron told Al Jazeera that she does not see the war as sustainable for Ukraine, which faces numerous problems: a shortage of troops, a struggling economy, and its dependence on Western aid.
“Russia will have enough resources to go on for a couple [of] years more. Ukraine does not have that time, neither does NATO because NATO itself is facing shortages in air defence systems,” Miron said, adding that Ukraine is not a priority for policymakers as the Middle East crisis worsens.
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Oh they only allow 25 years and up to serve, but we have people here screaming about 18 year olds being sent to their deaths.
Russia conscripts at age 18.
If too many ukes die and blackrock needs more workers for all the farmland they own, they can just import africans to take their place.
Al Jazeera?
Russian basic military training stats around age 12 or 13 - freshmen in high school can field strip and reassemble AKs in seconds as part of their educations.
https://youtu.be/LrxjYfl05ek?si=7o3l8tuY9eeK2VvT
Interesting.
I never thought of excluding 18-25 because they haven’t had children yet.
Makes sense though, long term.
Reliable reports indicate both Russia and Ukraine are grabbing men off the streets and sending them ill equipped to the front.
“ If too many ukes die and blackrock needs more workers for all the farmland they own, they can just import africans to take their place.”
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That’s the preferred plan by Blackrock’s executives. /s?
I would prefer they round up all of the politicians and execs that plan to profit off of this debacle and send them to the Front regardless of age or infirmity.
Sounds a bit like the slaughter of WWI.
Obsolete tactics against modern weapons.
“ Oh they only allow 25 years and up to serve, but we have people here screaming about 18 year olds being sent to their deaths.
Russia conscripts at age 18.”
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My understanding is that Russia doesn’t send conscripts outside of Russia to combat. Of course they may (and have) find themselves exposed to combat in situations where there’s an armed invasion of Russia itself such as the Ukrainian attack into Kursk.
This is a total repeat of WW1, just on a smaller scale. And as was in WW1, nothing but fools and egotists on both sides. No clean hands anywhere.
It bothers me to see folks cheering on one side or the other in this meat grinder. Hopefully Trump 2.0 will put an end to this stupid war, and quickly.
How many need to die to cover up the graft of politicians making fortunes off this war?
“This is a total repeat of WW1, just on a smaller scale. And as was in WW1, nothing but fools and egotists on both sides. No clean hands anywhere.
It bothers me to see folks cheering on one side or the other in this meat grinder. Hopefully Trump 2.0 will put an end to this stupid war, and quickly.”
I agree with every word you said.👍👍👍
About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year
Ukraine needs 500,000 more troops amid slowing mobilization
Totally agree. The war just needs to end with borders recognized where they are. They should negotiate only for the exchange of prisoners, military concessions, trade negotiations, etc.
And yet here we are, three years in.
Guess who else conscripts at 18? I wouldn’t crow too loudly, Zeeper.
Trump needs to turn off the money spigot and let them lay waste to each other. Not our circus or monkeys.
...and about quarter trillion dollars (plus interest) poorer...
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