One comment

1. The KyivPost also just published a comprehensive article about the problems surrounding domestic reinforcement of the Ukrainian troops:
   “What’s up With Mobilization in Ukraine?”
   https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29886
   Some highlights:
   “The Russian propagandists and bloggers enthusiastically pick up and spread negative narratives about mobilization – particularly on popular social networks like TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram, Romanyuk said.”
   “An opinion commonly voiced by servicemen is that after Ukrainian successes – in first halting Russian advances and then pushing them to the east and south – those in relatively safer areas, such as Kyiv, became more complacent and less motivated to join the military.”
   “The new mobilization draft law is intended to address these problems. It passed its first reading on Feb. 12, which allowed amendments to be made to it. After the amendments are considered, it gets voted on a second time and then becomes a law or not. However, some 4,300 amendments, most of them proposed by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, have been proposed and are holding up the process.”
   “So right now, as the Ukrainian leadership pleads with its Western supporters to speed up the supply of weapons and ammunition, it has laid itself open to charges that it is not showing sufficient political will at home to ensure that it has enough troops at the front.”

   Loading...

   Reply