To the last Ukrainian: Ukraine parliament has rubberstamped law on forced mobilization of Ukrainian men in Ukraine & abroad “literally within half an hour without discussion.” This law requires all Ukrainian men 18 to 60 years old in Ukraine & abroad to register at military draft… pic.twitter.com/VdaUuUwbnR
— Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) April 11, 2024
“As there are fewer and fewer conscripts, Ukraine is strongly recommended to mobilize women”: the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to conscript women for military service “in the Israeli style.”
Oksana Grigorieva, Gender Adviser to the Commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed… pic.twitter.com/OyCQMjc7i1
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) April 10, 2024
Everyone was claiming this law was not going to pass.
I just saw John Mearsheimer last week claiming it wasn’t going to pass.
The Ukraine Parliament is fake. The entire country’s policy is being dictated by Zelensky, who is in turn doing whatever the Americans tell him to do.
Ukraine’s parliament passed a bill to overhaul how the armed forces drafts civilians into its ranks on Thursday after a general told the chamber that Russian forces outnumbered Kyiv’s troops up ten times on the battlefield in the east.
10-1 is a big gap, lol.
You’re going to need to really train a lot of soldiers quickly, Hohol.
The bill, which did not include a set of draconian draft dodging penalties that sparked public outrage earlier, aims to boost the number of troops more than two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. The bill was overtly backed by the military.
“Pass this law and the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not let down you or the Ukrainian people,” General Yuriy Sodol, commander of the joint forces, told lawmakers.
“We are maintaining our defences with our last strength,” he said as lawmakers stood up and applauded more than a dozen commanders who attended the session.
Defenses?
If it’s about defense, you could just surrender now, and the Russians would stop advancing.
Zelensky is saying he’s going to do a new “counteroffensive.”
Military analysts say Ukraine’s armed forces need to address acute problems with manpower, as well as their artillery shell shortage, with better-equipped Russian forces inching forward in the east.
“The enemy outnumbers us by seven to ten times, we lack manpower,” said Sodol, who is commanding Kyiv’s troops in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
The bill passed with a majority of 283 votes, Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a lawmaker for the Holos party, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
The bill still needs to be signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy before it becomes law.
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Lawmaker Oleksandr Fedienko said the passage of the bill would send a “message to our partners that we are ready to retake our territory and we need weapons.”
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Last week, Zelenskiy signed separate legislation into law to lower the conscription age to 25 from 27. Parliament is considering another bill to allow convicts serving suspended sentences to fight in the army.
I’ve seen a lot of videos of beardless boys being grabbed on the streets over the last 18 months. The Ukraine has been functioning under martial law for over two years.
Frankly, they’ve already conscripted everyone they could conscript, regardless of whatever the law was, and nothing is going to change because of this new law.
The only thing they can do now is conscript women, which is going to be hilarious.
Ukraine is trying to attract more women to the front pic.twitter.com/fueOBo4JDm
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 7, 2024