The United States has pressed for the mobile age in Ukraine to be lowered to 18 years – but the issue is sensitive and debated in Ukraine, as it would mean that a new generation risks life at the front.
Discussed is also the issue of coercive measures for recruitment used by the army where men are picked up directly from the street. Videos that have been widely circulated in social media in Ukraine show how people are forced into military service.
But different brigades work in different ways.
Followed the 47th brigade
Slava travels across the country to mobilize crew to the 47th brigade. SVT News has followed the Brigade, which through, among other things, telephone calls and social media is trying to find new methods to fill on the front.
– We have to explain that everything is not so nasty. When safety is good, the preparation and education are good, the commanders and planning is good, it is not at all nasty but on the contrary interesting, useful and necessary and people join more easily, says Slava.
The soldier Oleksandr says he was prepared to end up in the army sooner or later.
– You have no choice. The situation is difficult in Ukraine now, he says.
Paasikivi: Russia cannot run out of soldiers
How long Russia could conduct its attack war in Ukraine depends on several factors. Since the full -scale invasion, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers have probably been killed at the front.
But every day new soldiers are sent into the fighting, and for Russia there is no risk that soldiers will be inserted, said Joakim Paasikivi, military expert and former lieutenant, recently to SVT News.
– It is about demographics, that there are recruitable soldiers of the right age who are healthy enough. There, there are statistically at least around 10 million.
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