As of: February 16, 2024, 11:30 a.m
By: Erkan Pehlivan
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Russia is running out of soldiers.
Many recruits are not suitable for the war against Ukraine, complains a member of the Krasnoyarsk city council.
Moscow – Even after two years of war in Ukraine, there can be no talk of a victory for Russia.
This is apparently also due to the Russian soldiers themselves, many of whom are unfit for war.
Prisoners, homeless people and other socially disadvantaged people made up the majority of recruits in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk last year, a local lawmaker said, according to the
Moscow Times
.
“Last year, our contract soldiers were mostly alcoholics, homeless, neglected, prisoners and others,” the newspaper quoted Krasnoyarsk City Council member Vyacheslav Dyukov, citing a televised meeting on Wednesday.
Dyukov is a member of the ruling, Kremlin-aligned United Russia party, which unanimously supports President Vladimir Putin's political initiatives, including his 2022 decision to invade Ukraine.
According to Kiev, Russia is losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers
Russia continues to recruit soldiers for the war in Ukraine.
And there are good reasons for that.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, 400,300 Russian soldiers have died to date.
Russia does not confirm these figures.
2023 in particular is said to have been very loss-making for Russia.
Russia is said to have lost 253,000 soldiers in Ukraine last year, around 29,000 in December alone.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu boasted in December that 490,000 contract workers and volunteers had been recruited since the beginning of last year.
Around 387,000 of them are said to be contract soldiers.
Russia wants to recruit another 400,000 soldiers in 2024, writes the
Moscow Times
.
However, this is likely to prove difficult because the military has exhausted its pool of potential recruits.
Russia wants to recruit more soldiers for the war in Ukraine.
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Ukraine is also running out of soldiers
But Ukraine is also running out of soldiers after two years of war.
On the one hand, the country needs recruits to replace the exhausted soldiers, but on the other hand, more men and women overall to strengthen the troops in the fight against the numerically superior attacker.
But the recruitment of volunteers is progressing slowly.
To remedy the situation, the government presented a bill to facilitate conscription.
The planned new regulations have sparked a heated debate in the country.
Ukraine modernizes military system
There are now even service providers who want to make recruiting easier.
The recruiting agency Lobby
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Modernizing the military system “is a very big challenge,” admits Managing Director Vladyslaw Greziev.
“But we have to face it, because this is the only way we can win the war.” According to Greziev, the agency has already received 67,000 applications.
A bill also proposes to lower the draft age from 27 to 25 years, to digitalize the recruitment system and to limit military service in times of war to 36 months.
(erpe/AFP)