Ukraine cannot mobilise 500,000 soldiers while artillery shortage compounds problems

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher Although martial law and a decree on general mobilisation have been in force in Ukraine since February 2022, and men between the ages of 18 and 60 are now banned from leaving the country, the Ukrainian military said they did not know how to mobilise an additional 500,000 soldiers, as volunteers had “exhausted.” “We have run out of volunteers willing to voluntarily join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine… To say exactly when [the mobilisation of more than 500,000 people] will be and how high quality it is, is difficult to say […] #Featured #UkraineWar #WarZone #World
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