“Otherwise there will be a catastrophic defeat’: US expert calls for NATO soldiers in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj signed new so-called war laws to expand mobilization for the war.
The General Staff has announced that Ukraine would lack 500,000 soldiers to defend itself against the Russian aggressor. At least 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers are believed to have died in the Ukraine war, US officials told The New York Times in August 2023. In December 2023, wives of Ukrainian soldiers demonstrated in Ukraine and demanded demobilization.