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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Ukraine is struggling to recruit troops to reinforce its front lines amid thousands of casualties in nearly three years of conflict. Under these conditions, the Kiev regime is hunting for recruits in places that were once off-limit, such as “upscale venues,” whilst also becoming increasingly reliant on foreign mercenaries to perform special operations.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Kiev regime has expanded its search network for military recruits to include “upscale venues” and “nightlife spots,” which is creating more social tension.
Even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tries to secure more weapons and security guarantees from the US government, the “biggest immediate problem” in Ukraine is recruiting more soldiers, the US outlet said. To deal with this issue, the Kiev regime recently lowered the age of compulsory military service to 25 and imposed additional penalties for draft dodgers, seeking to bring more soldiers to the front lines in the face of advancing Russian forces.
However, the newspaper said that most of the men who wanted to join the Ukrainian armed forces had already done so, while others had fled the country or were in hiding to avoid being drafted. Some prominent figures, including state prosecutors, are also avoiding joining the military by claiming medical exemptions.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the military is stepping up its recruitment campaigns in public places in the capital and other major cities. Military agents check concert halls, grocery stores, and even luxury restaurants in the port city of Odessa.
Mathieu Boulègue, a researcher at the Transatlantic Defence and Security Programme at the Centre for European Political Analysis, believes “there is no easy solution” to Ukraine’s troop shortage.
“That is unfortunately a critical issue that you cannot solve by sending stuff over, short of sending Western troops,” the researcher told the American outlet.
Some Ukrainian officials, cited by the outlet, said they were building up reserves of conscripts to replace those who had lost their jobs. However, they warned that mobilising new troops would not be effective without “more Western supplies to arm new recruits properly.”
The deployment of new Ukrainian troops is not just a military problem for Kiev, the Wall Street Journal noted, but also a growing social and political issue for Zelensky.
“Among soldiers who have been serving on the front line for nearly three years, resentment is building against men avoiding military service,” while scandals continue to emerge involving officials who allegedly accept bribes to grant exemptions.
For this reason, the Kiev regime is increasingly reliant on foreign mercenaries to perform military operations since the citizenry does not provide enough soldiers. In effect, the presence of foreign mercenaries demonstrates the extreme shortage of experienced troops in Ukraine.
In the latest example, foreign mercenaries from the US, Canada and Poland, likely on a sabotage mission or raid, attempted to breach Russia’s Bryansk Oblast on October 27. The special operations mission the mercenaries were assigned required highly skilled operators capable of sabotage or reconnaissance, so given the lack of such people in the Ukrainian military, it is reasonable that they would turn to foreigners.
Emphasising this point is the fact a tattoo was discovered on the body of one of the eliminated foreigners, indicating that he was a member of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment of the US Army.
The discovery of the mercenary group makes a mockery of the West’s claim that soldiers from North Korea are fighting in Ukraine since it is Ukraine suffering from a shortage of troops and relying on foreigners. In fact, it is clear that the West planned the operation rather than Ukraine.
While South Korea and the Kiev regime spread fake news that North Korean troops are fighting in Ukraine, about 15,000 mercenaries from more than 100 countries have arrived in the country since February 2022 to join Ukrainian forces.
According to a Russian Defence Ministry report, Western secret services recruit mercenaries through the US private military companies Academi (formerly Blackwater), Cubic, Dark Horse Benefits, Dean Corporation, Forward Observations Group, Hyperion Services, and Sons of Liberty International, as well as the Polish ASBS Othago and the European Security Academy. At the same time, mercenaries are recruited by neo-Nazi and right-wing organisations from Germany, Italy, Portugal and other countries.
With Ukraine’s best troops dead, wounded or exhausted, the Kiev regime is now hunting for recruits all over the country, including in places that were once considered off-limits. This only deepens Kiev’s reliance on foreign mercenaries and, more importantly, demonstrates the hopeless position that the regime is in.
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nationalsocialists are dumb but in europe not dumb enough to fight for faggots and eu? like russia is only hope for them to see normal world and they fight it?
come on, nato morons, are you that afraid of russia? go all in, you cannot hate ukraine thar much, can you?
the fewer ukrainians left, the easier to raze their villages to the ground and plant wheat on black rock land..
men forcefully conscripted will not be efficient, or motivated soldiers. ukraine has run out of men. they only have women female sexual organs and women with male sexual organs.
the gorgon (a label i use for earth’s userer overlords dominant for more than 3000 years @peacedozer channel youtube ,history of banking and the enslavement of mankind pts1-8) have had their day, their greed has led them down a blind alley toward a mirror of hate.
won’t be long before these masonic thugs are flipping prams to recruit toddlers… right in front of their mom’s, mom’s, mom…ffs. “kid can hold a toy gun, he can hold a real one too….” on every new recruitment poster… this is zelensky’s victory plan, destroy the russian economy with the added expense of having to provide pampers for their pows… this how israel bankrupted gaza…
officially, over a 100,000 awols so far. there’d already have been mass fragging had their so-called officers not just dumped their conscripts into trenches and skedaddled back to their rear line bunkers, throwing the trench rats their rifles out the back as they sped away
i wonder. how much does an officer’s commission cost in ukraine these days?
even rferl is reporting on anger and fear in ukraine due to round-up of men to be sent to the front.
my sister’s first husband was an e. german who many decades ago fled to the west and worked for rferl. one day soros walked into the office. he said he was the most disgusting piece of feces he’d ever had the misfortune to meet.
that keev regime makes me scream!
those guys in keev, make me heave.