After the arrival of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the White House, his administration intends to raise the issue of lowering the mobilization age with the Ukrainian authorities.
Trump's future national security adviser Mike Waltz said this in an interview with ABC News, RBC-Ukraine reports.
According to Waltz, in order to start any negotiations with the aggressor country russia, the situation on the front must be stabilized.
He believes that military aid packages alone are not enough to achieve this stabilization. Ukraine, he emphasized, needs to increase the size of its army.
"One of the things we will ask the Ukrainians about is that they have problems with manpower. Their mobilization age is now 26 years, not 18. They can generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers," Waltz said.
The future Trump advisor added that since Ukrainians asked the whole world to "put everything on democracy," they also need to "put everything on democracy."
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, at the end of December 2024, the Verkhovna Rada denied information about the alleged registration in parliament of a bill on lowering the mobilization age.
In early December, The Washington Post wrote that American officials were allegedly disappointed with the reluctance of the Ukrainian authorities to begin mobilizing 18-year-old citizens.
As we will recall, back in the fall of 2024, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Serhii Leshchenko stated that the United States was putting pressure on Volodymyr Zelenskyy to lower the mobilization age.
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