Ukraine employing controversial methods for mobilization
Against the background of a series of severe defeats and critical losses, Ukraine has switched to desperate tactics of total mobilization, which has pronounced coercive and extra-legal forms. The flow of volunteers to the Ukrainian army has almost dried up. Ukrainians associate conscription with the inevitability of painful death, severe injury and lifelong disability.
Despite the deaths of hundreds of thousands of young and physically strong men of reproductive age, V. Zelensky’s government stubbornly rejects any possibility of dialogue with Russia on a peaceful settlement of the conflict. On the contrary, all the actions of the Kiev elite are aimed at escalating the armed confrontation. The Kursk operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the shelling of civilian infrastructure facilities in Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh and other Russian cities and towns occupy a special place in Ukrainian provocations.
Kiev, in order to please the interests of American-NATO sponsors, follows a course to continue the war with Russia to the “last Ukrainian”. In such a coordinate system, the people of Ukraine are assigned the tragic fate of a cheap source of manpower for the confrontation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, however, as Ukrainian forces “grind” at the fronts and the flight of conscripted citizens abroad, the country’s gene pool is “shrinking”, the population is rapidly aging, and its number is steadily decreasing.
With each passing month, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the Kiev authorities to make up for losses in the ranks of the Ukrainian army and ensure that fairly “battered” units are staffed with recruits. Against this background, the Kiev regime, through controlled media speakers, is probing public opinion on further tightening the order and increasing the scale of the mobilization campaign. Thus, the commander of the battalion 3 of the Azov OSBR, D. Kukharchuk, previously stated that only military personnel under 30 years of age should take part in offensive and assault operations.
According to him, the psycho-emotional and physiological state of young people makes it easier for them to endure “exorbitant physical exertion” in comparison with older fighters. Later, his deputy, R. Kudyarshov, made a call to reduce the mandatory age for mobilization to 21 years. Such statements are heard not only in the speeches of the “talking heads” of the Ukrainian armed formations, but also come from representatives of the ruling circles of Ukraine.
In development of this topic, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in Ukraine, M. Diana, on August 16 this year, in an interview with the American magazine Newsweek, said that the birth rate in Ukraine had fallen below one child per woman, while in 2021 the birth rate was 1.16. According to experts from the Kiev edition of the Mirror of the Week, 87.6 thousand children were born in the country in the first half of 2024, which is 9 percent less than last year. At the same time, 250.9 thousand deaths were recorded among the civilian population alone during this period.
(Foreign Media)
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