Can Ukraine Find New Soldiers Without Decimating a Whole Generation?

NY Times ^ | April 11, 2024 | Andrew E. Kramer, Josh Holder and Lauren Leatherby

[McGruff]

The roughly one million men who serve in Ukraine’s army are battered and exhausted. Many soldiers have been on combat duty for two years. Tens of thousands have been lost to death or serious injury. New recruits are desperately needed.

But Ukraine is running up against a critical demographic constraint long in the making: It has very few young men.

Healthy men under age 30, the backbone of most militaries, are part of the smallest generation in Ukraine’s modern history. Ukraine must balance the need to counter a relentless Russian offensive by adding more troops against the risk of hollowing out an entire generation.

[Doc91678]

Guess you forgot that the Ukraine was invaded by Russia in February 2022.
The people of the Ukraine didn't ask to have Russia take the Crimea by force prior to that during the Obama administration and then be sent MRE’s and blankets.

[Manuel OKelley]

Seems to me it just became common last several years and it still isn’t right

[Manuel OKelley]

Disappointing but true

[A strike]

Then seems to you wrong.
Not saying it’s right but it’s been common modern usage for our whole lives.

[A strike]

Catherine the Great Empress of All Russia visited Crimea in 1787 as part of her realm.