@uninspiredcup: Ukraine doesn't care more about their troops. They care more about their civilians. That's why we are seeing significantly less women and young people in the military than just a year ago. The average age is 43 and 1/4 of their troops are over 60. In 2022, the average age was 30
https://time.com/6329188/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-interview/
Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years. “They’re grown men now, and they aren’t that healthy to begin with,” says the close aide to Zelensky. “This is Ukraine. Not Scandinavia.”
Yet were supposed to believe these insane casualty ratios, despite the fact the casualties have been kept confidential. Sometimes it's 3:1, other times it's 7:1, even 10:1. So many in the West choose to believe this despite the fact that an aging military is a classic sign of depleted personnel.
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