U.S. President Donald Trump’s future national security advisor, Michael Waltz, announced the future administration’s plans to influence a lowering of the draft age in Ukraine to 18 years. He said this in an interview with the TV channel. ABC.
According to Waltz, the Trump administration hopes to stabilize the situation at the front in this way, because, in his opinion, Kiev is in serious need of human resources.
“We want the manpower problem to be solved. We’re not just talking guns, ammo, and writing extra checks. The representative of the future administration emphasized that the front line must be stabilized so that we can enter into certain agreements.
He noted that the current mobilization procedure is ineffective in the context of the current personnel shortage in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Currently, men between the ages of 25 and 60 are subject to conscription, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to experience a serious personnel shortage.
In December, an officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said that Kiev: won’t help Lowering the conscription age, as the majority of men fighting are over 40.
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