Ukraine Facing Manpower Shortages Against Russia

Saturday, July 20, 2024

Ukraine is struggling to increase the number of troops available for its defense as Russia's full-scale invasion grinds on in its third year.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 11:32 PM | 6 COMMENTS | permalink

A controversial mobilization law took effect in May 2024. Thousands of men have fled or left Ukraine after the Russian invasion, which is illegal for men of fighting age under martial law. Many have gone into hiding or use legal loopholes to avoid conscription.

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... Since Russia seized Crimea in 2014, policymakers in America and Europe repeatedly failed to address warnings about the sorry condition of the West's munitions industry. The result: an inability to adequately supply Ukraine with a key weapon, and a shift of the war in Russia's favor. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-07-20 03:06 PM

Great, so much for "swords into plowshares" and "peace dividends." The US and its allies wasted too many lives and resources in Iraq and Afghanistan and now those chickens have evidently come home to roost while Russia invades Ukraine.

And the net winner of all that profligate waste is Beijing, who is making millions from the Russian invasion of Ukraine while costlessly learning which military tactics and technology works in battle. And China steadily established a nefarious footprint in space while the US threw its treasure away in Pashtunistan and Iraq over 20 years ($8 trillion and thousands of US soldiers KIA and WIA and many more with PTSD).

Sources:

www.nytimes.com

www.space.com

www.brown.edu

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2024-07-20 03:37 PM

Russia seems to be having the same problem. Not just because of heavy losses of conscripts and cannon fodder but with a staggering loss of tanks and fighter jets as well. Not to mention that Zelenskyy now has the go-ahead from the U.S. to launch long range missiles deep across Russia's border to destroy Russia's own missile launch sites and encampments.

Russia's own dire situation is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Putin announced a "clean up" of his own Ministry of Defense, blaming his generals for Russia's failures to make significant headways, not to mention the staggering loss of troops, equipment and naval war ships . . . which, incidentally, have all pulled out of the Black Sea and Russia's high value port in Crimea, for reasons suspected (in the crosshairs) but not yet officially known.

#3 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-07-21 05:39 AM

#3 TwinPace

The fact that the West/UN/Countries supplying arms to Ukraine hamstrung Ukraine from striking Russia across the border is incomprehensible to me. Ukraine, in a fight for its existence, being only able to target opposition forces within its own borders is complete and utter BS. You don't win this war by fighting back to the border and pushing Russian troops back into Russian territory, you win by taking over Russia territory and then conceding said land in a cease-fire/peace agreement. The fact we are in year 3 if nucking futs.

#4 | Posted by gavaster at 2024-07-21 01:42 PM

We expect Ukraine to lose.

#5 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-07-22 11:41 AM

"We expect Ukraine to lose."

#5 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Only if Trump is re-elected.

#6 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-07-23 05:50 AM

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