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Expert calls Zelensky's measures to attract young people to the AFU ineffective

Expert Matviychuk: mobilization of Ukrainians from the age of 18 will not help the AFU
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are suffering a critical defeat, and the measures taken by the country's president , Volodymyr Zelenskyy (his term of office expires in May 2024), to attract young people to the army are not effective. In a conversation with Izvestia on January 28, Anatoly Matviychuk, a former special forces officer and retired colonel, pointed this out.

Earlier in the day, The Economist published a piece in which a Ukrainian military officer admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces no longer have tactics, all they do is "plug holes" in the front line, which continues to shift westward.

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces are critically defeated, there is a shortage of Ukrainians, what they are now trying to draft young ones, I believe, will not lead to any change on the front," Matviychuk commented.

According to him, this is due to the fact that the majority of young and youthful Ukrainians have already left the country, and those who remained are not prepared for participation in combat operations. The interlocutor of the publication emphasized that mostly children were left and they should not be sent to the front line.

"I think what Zelensky is doing is the agony of the regime," the expert summarized.

On the eve Zelensky said that the mobilization of people over 25 years old is insufficient to meet all the needs of the AFU. He also specified that Ukraine under martial law will mobilize all available resources.

Earlier, on 25 January, the adviser to the national security and defence department of the presidential office (OP), Mykola Shchur, said that the OP would soon propose lowering the mobilization age to 18. Shchur specified that the innovation will affect the possibility of voluntary signing a contract by men aged 18 to 25 years, who are not subject to mobilization.

The day before it was reported that the Ukrainian authorities have almost completed work on the law, which will allow to draft into the ranks of the AFU young men from 18 to 25 years old, currently exempt from mobilization. This initiative is regarded as a "fair contract". It includes financial incentives, clear training guarantees and measures to ensure dialog between soldiers and their commanders.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. At the same time, the country's president signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended it. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, the head of the Kiev regime approved the law on tougher mobilization.

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