Angesichts der russischen Aggression fehlt es der Ukraine an jungen Männern, um die dezimierten Reihen der Streitkräfte aufzufüllen
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/ukraine-demographic-crisis-young-men-enlist-soldiers-birth-rate-military-war-russia-4595356
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The title is slightly misleading, as the article mostly talks about demographic challenges for Ukraine, which in itself is a very interesting topic: millions have fled the country since the Russian invasion, and *”the available workforce has shrunk 27 per cent”*. These are real challenges for future generations.
Time for young women to step up in the name of equality
“The demographic under the largest threat is young men aged under 30, which make up the smallest population group in the country”.
Oof. This should be a wake up call for other western countries aswell. We need new and heavy insentives for couples to get kids.. for reference in Nigeria alone there are 2x as many children born than in the entire EU combined. Historically speaking, relying on migrants alone is a terrible long term solution.
The toll of this war is becoming more apparent by the day.
In the name
Of equality draft the women!!
It’s scary how hard it is to discern the difference between what the truth on the ground is and propaganda
Ukraine already had a demographic problem before the war.
Average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 45. Clearly not sustainable.
The west is protracting this war by tying ukraine’s hands behind their back, not allowing for deep strikes inside Russia.
We are sleepwalking up to the moment where the ukrainian military collapses due to manpower shortage. Drones can only help so much, if there are no men to hold the line.
Force enlistment for women. Time to show that big fat middle finger to patriarchy and promote equality ladies
Till the last Ukrainian..
how about conscripting women??
Depleted ranks is a fun way of saying killed and injured
I hope war one day will be worldwide banned, as it is an insult to human intelligence and life itself.
How about they start drafting the women then too
Two countries ravaged of youth by old angry men
I think they call it war now
2 million fighting age men have left the country since the war began. Of course they have manpower issues
There’s a very real possibility that Ukraine won’t ever fully recover from this war. A post-war reconstruction will need a sizable injection of cash from the west to have any hope of success.
They haven’t been drafting anyone under 27 for most of the war, only recently was it even changed to 25.
I wonder if Ukraine will start recruiting from abroad like the Russians do.
That’s been the plan all along. Russia has been importing a ton of disposable bodies to fight while Ukraine is sending in their best troops. As time marches on, Russia is gaining the advantage here.
Which is why we have to take off the shackles and let Ukraine defend itself and fight with no restrictions.
What about women ? Aren’t we in a society with equal rights
From the first months it should have been apparent that it would get to this point. Russia has never cared one bit for staggering personnel losses, and has far, far more people. I’ll never understand why we didn’t 10x support out of the gate, and why we handcuffed Ukraine the whole time including up to today. I keep hearing “we want to wear Russia down”. Well that’s great but it looks like that approach is going to ultimately lead to a Russian victory. They will keep a big chunk of Ukraine, and begin preparing for the next place they want to take a bite. The awful leaders of the world will take note and realize wars of greed and conquest are back on.
I don’t even know if it’s salvageable any more. If we let Russia finish with anything more than they started we’ve utterly failed.
Thousands of years of evolution to have some fat, old and senile men kill our young and bright over money.
We haven’t changed at all.
Russia deploys a lot of foreign fighters. Why can’t Ukraine do the same?
If both sides are going to constantly lie about statistics its going to end a big fat lie with no support
Conscript. Women.
We need to untie their hands so they can stop the kinds of russian weapons that are doing the most damage and costing the most lives.
– 9 month old account
– Posts anti-Kamala Harris content in /r/politics
– Unreliable source (channelnewsasia.com)
Even if this is true, expect Russian bots and accounts to add this to their analytics dashboard and share it around to drive the narrative [(Exhibit 6A)](https://api.politico.eu/editorial_documents/24bf7e55-7950-4410-9694-7c629e8f50ae).
The real solution here is to allow Ukraine to use whatever weapons on whatever targets make sense, with no more restrictions in order “not to escalate.”
They should setup a recruiting station at the US southern border.
It’s a disgrace that Ukraine is still not allowed to strike deep into Russia. Absolute madness.
More drones
If only there was another gender who has been screaming to high heavens for decades how equally or more capable they are than men…