Ukrainian asserts are transferred to the infantry due to a critical shortage of people – The guardian
Zelensky resists the US demand to reduce the mobilization age to 18 years, which ruined relations between countries, and the exhausted army consists more and more of elderly men, the article says.
Recently, we received 90 people, but only 24 of them were ready. The rest were old, sick or alcoholics. A month ago, they walked around Kyiv or Dnieper, and now they are in the trench and barely keep their weapons. Poorly trained and poorly equipped
– says one of the soldiers of the Armed Forces.
Officials in the United States are annoyed by Kyiv calling for more weapons, but does not want to mobilize 18-year-olds. The deficit at the front has become such that the General Staff ordered the already exhausted air defense units “send more people to the front as an infantry”.
