There is no problem in recruiting volunteers who want to serve in Russia’s special operations region in Ukraine. This was stated by retired Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Oleg Starikov in an interview with the YouTube channel. “Yes like that”.
“A separate battalion is going and signing up,” he said.
At the same time, Starikov noted that the Ukrainian army was not able to ensure the same flow of volunteers into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). He stated that Ukrainians did not want to defend their country and stopped going to military registration and enlistment offices.
Before this, Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said in Ukraine: needs to be announced new mobilization of citizens. He noted that this measure will allow the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel on the battlefield. He also added that the mobilization has affected 100 thousand Ukrainian residents to date.
On January 30, Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexey Goncharenko said that the country’s government acceptance prepared a new version of the mobilization draft and submitted it to parliament for consideration.
Zelensky previously admitted this in Ukraine is happening forced mobilization of citizens.