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Is there some reason why the well-dressed iPhone-carrying men in this video demanding mobilisation aren't fighting on the front lines themselves? Or they mean poor men from eastern villages should all be mobilised?

Why can't he go to the Frontline?

I find funny how all those supporters of new mobilization laws are not on front lines themselves

The issue I find amusing is people from far away who are not in any way connected to this being angry that young Ukrainians are not so willing to go to the frontlines. Do these people really think they know what's going on more than the people concerned?like wtf

Я за закон о мобилизации, пожалуй после того как я покину страну.

everyone blaming others to do the job but not themselves hmm

The old guy is especially on to this 😅

The second guy mentions the need to provide motivation, if a country invading your homeland isn't motivation enough...what is?

Always the people in Kiev talking high and mighty till they get sent to the front 😂

Ukraine needs to rotate her troops away from the combat zone. It is a proven fact that by 180 days in combat that humans are too traumatized to be effective militarily; at that point they need psychological attention to cope with what they have experienced. We should not let these brave men & women reach that point!

In 39 the British mobilisation was from 18+

They've not really had a choice, due to a complete halt to the US aid! The dynamics have changed and have been continuously changing throughout the past 6 months. Ukrainian troops WERE getting rotated in and out, but since they are so incredibly low on weapons and ammunition, this isn't happening so much because they are taking heavy losses. Ukrainian allies shouldn't just change from being an ally and helping, to absolutely no support whatsoever! How can ANYONE plan ANYTHING like that!

I think they avoid a lot of war crimes by having such a mature conscription age.

where are the childrens of Melnyk, Klitschko etc?

....they should ask Macron, Ursula, Biden, Boris Johnson & Justin Trudueu to sent there young soldiers....

Conscription violates basic human rights. No debate. If you support it you're a monster.

Will any of you honestly be will to fight for Zelenski..???

Fight mykola, fight taras. 🤣

But honestly, who'd thought in the first year of the "operation" that Ukraine would still be fighting now?

I wonder how many of these newly mobilized men will be actually used for rotation and how many will be used to replace losses

A lot of people don't realize that the US Marines who fought for years in the Pacific storming islands actually spent less than 180 days in actual combat. Units were in contact with the IJA far less than you might think, although the combats were really bad for both sides. The trend has been for armies to employ soldiers for far longer tours than in the past.

REMEMBER THEY VOTED FOR ZELENSKY

You defend it stop relying on others to do your bidding .

Now human right silents 🤐🤐

How TAF is there not full mobilization age 18 and up? This is crazy.

I hope those who understand the futility of war get to escape successfully. Nothing is more valuable than your own life, not your family, not your sweetheart, and certainly not the government or whatever.

Such interviews will be held with us in a few years, if we do not stop Petr Bystron, Marjorie Taylorovich Greenova, Václav Klaus, Viktor Orbán,... now.

The biggest issue Ukraine has had with mobilization is that they are concerned about demographic collapse 10, 20, 30 years down the road. Their population only started recovering from the combined effects of the Soviet era and post-soviet chaos around the mid-2000s and early 2010s. Ever since Euromaidan and the nearly 10 years of war before the full RU invasion, they've been losing what little gains they've made in the working & childbearing age cohort. Mobilization is a choice between saving their country now and jeopardizing any possibility of future prosperity. Even with her much greater population, you can already see the beginning effects of demographic collapse in the RU from their mobilization. It will be much worse in 20-30 years, UKR is trying to avoid that. One could argue that the one of the main reasons UKR was in a vulnerable enough state that RU considered trying to influence/annex/invade them is because of the depopulation efforts instituted by the USSR.

what happens to them if they say something the government doesnt like? if they could throw american journalists in jail and m urder him imagine what they would do to their own people for speaking out...

Ukraine is weird - Kiev carries on with parties like there is no existential war being fought a few hundred kms away

Who's gonna say anything more negative to get a visit from the SBU anyway?

what you need is PEACE!!

not surprised russia is gaining some momentum

I bet non of these guys have to go to the frontlines.

Stop the "comfortable cowardice" and go defend your country and your families

You're at WAR. GO DEFEND YOUR DAMN COUNTRY.

Well it's all russia's fault so what can they say? Bad luck for ukrainians.

this is a good solution. people who desert should be brought back. then they can fight for their country and serve their sentences there. you are not allowed to circumvent the law.

It's shocking that even these modest reforms have taken so long. Only draft men 27 and older? Insane.

Are these men in the Army?

Second guy wants no draft, and thinks motivating the public is better? How's watching tens of thousands of civilians get tortured to death in the eastern cities work towards your motivation, man? Apparently not very well.

Some paid actors, default ruzzbots. Every ukranian happy and fell honoured about protecting the homeland.

Defending ones country is every citizen’s responsibility….. wake up!

I support that new law. I need to see my money's worth. We have sent more than 200 Billion USD so far. The least you Ukranians can do is sign up to fight for Zelensky and Victoria Nuland.

Unbelievable. They know what's coming if they lose- to their wives, daughters, etc. If you aren't willing to fight to keep a vicious enemy out of your home, there's no hope for you.

Запитують в Києві? Там не знають, що таке мобілізація, про що ви в них питаєте?

Most of ukrainians do not think russian as a invaders . They were in same country in empireal period

PNAC proxy war mugs

if you want to defend tour country, try out in Kiev. your real enemy is there, not in moscov

I wonder why women are not participating in combat? Ukraine should prove it's not sexist by giving rifles to women too

Strange discussion - If Ukrainians want to fight Russians every man should serve military. If they don't want to serve, Ukraine should go to the negotiation table! Second would be better !

Good! The grinder needs more meat.

There should be no debate. If you are of age, fit and not in a reserved occupation; you should be serving in the forces.

Meanwhile, Zelensky fled to Lithuania to attend a Summit 😄😆

Love&Hope God Bless Ukraine 💙💛

Propaganda

воюйте Мыколы!!!!

бедные люди, скоро там никого не останется, а депутаты Рады прячут своих детей в странах ЕС

Sure, a volunteer professional army would be great, but it's a little too late to be planning a professional well trained army based on good salaries and well maintained and up to date equipment. Wouldn't you agree? The Russians will be in Kiev at this rate by Summer 2025 or much sooner if TRUMP is elected. The West will NOT commit troops with the faint possibility of France, and that is doubtful. What will happen is that Russians will expect the Residents of Kiev to Speak Russian and adopt a Russian Passport. If the Kiev civilian population resists, then they will be grossly marginalized in favor of Russian speakers, their salaries cut and benefits cut and may even face forced deportation to some Far East part of Russia. It has happened before. And of course in the face of further movements to take Western Ukraine, the Russian's will forceable conscript the Ukrainians to fight against their own people in the battles that follow against Lviv and eventually Moldova and parts of Romania that have a Russian component. Any part of Europe with a Russian Minority will be agitated to seek first independence like the People's Republic of Donetsk and Luhansk were, then given the opportunity to take Russian passports and vote for becoming Russian. Crimea was just another Example of the process of Ethnically Cleansing and changing the legal status of a region. Now, maybe you have plans to become Russian too? Maybe you don't care who is in charge? Both sides are equally corrupt and inefficient, so the choice seems to be fight or leave or SURRENDER. Surrender is an option that you there may not be realizing. Perhaps the West has already decided to support a partial reduction of land in exchange for 50 years of Peace. Now that would be something to see Russia actually follow those terms. Once Russia has the land, then it will reconstitute the manpower and install the political leaders and rebuild and rearm their army and then off to Moldova quite soon enough.

"Go and defend the country!" Say the ones who are not defending the country. But why would you go to war for people who failed at deplomacy (which ultimately caused this mess) and now want to keep the war going in order to not let a good tragedy go to waste? If ukrain lets itself be influenced by the west and refuses to have peace talks then that means that everybody who goes to war is a fool. The war has been only going into one direction and it will continue to do so unless a clear line is drawn. That's called "cutting your losses" and it's what reasonable people would do.

Welcome to the meat grinder

Slava Ukraina

This is exactly why many Americans are against further aid to Ukraine. If you can't get any of your own people to serve in your armed forces, why should Americans risk our money and quite possibly, troops lives to save Ukraine? In the US, you're required to register for possible conscription at 18.