Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under increasing pressure to lower the mobilization age and to call up soldiers from the age of 18 to stop the advance of the aggressor country russia.
The American newspaper The Washington Post reported this on Sunday, December 8.
The publication notes that the issue of lowering the mobilization age is "deeply sensitive" within the state, but "has baffled" some Western allies. Many armies around the world call up soldiers from the age of 18, but Kyiv continues to "resist" such a decision despite the russian offensive.
"As Russia has continued gaining ground on the battlefield with high-attrition-style combat, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing increased pressure to deploy more younger people to the front lines," the material says.
U.S. officials have warned that the situation with assistance from the United States cannot be predicted at the moment, but the shortage of military personnel in Ukraine is now perhaps more critical than the shortage of weapons, writes The Washington Post.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, some representatives of the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden believe that Ukraine should lower the mobilization age from 25 to 18 years.
On October 15, Advisor to the Head of the Presidential Office Serhii Leshchenko reported that Zelenskyy is under pressure from American politicians to lower the draft age and mobilize 18-year-olds.
On December 5, the former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, called the draft age in Ukraine "too high."
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