re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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replace the ones who 2 year term of military service is expiring.

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They’re being required to serve until the end of the war. No one is being demobilized.

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It has over 9 million military age males to draw troops from.

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Ukraine wouldn’t be using extremely coercive measures to compel men to serve if manpower wasn’t an issue. The stories (and videos) of people getting picked off the street, the fights with conscription officers, the protests (generally by women), the episodes where men have been killed by the TCC. These are signs of stress and the system breaking down. They did expand the draft to those as young as twenty five but this is also a sign of desperation, it’s the smallest cohort in their adult population.