Ukraine has an army of almost a million people, but only 20% are fighting at the front, – People’s Deputy Fedienko

He added that there is a certain military inequality that needs to be corrected.

The Ukrainian army has almost a million people, but only 20% are fighting at the front, at best. This was stated by Oleksandr Fedienko, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence.

“We have an army of almost a million, 20 percent of whom are fighting there – that’s at best. 40 percent are engaged in support, and there are all the others who also call themselves military. But for some reason, they don’t carry out rotation,” he said in an interview with Radio NV .

According to the MP, there are servicemen who have been fighting for three or four years directly in the zone of active hostilities, and there are those who “live at some training grounds, in the rear, etc.” Fedienko added that there is a certain military inequality that needs to be corrected.

“Therefore, before moving on to motivation, I think we still need to move on to the effective use of our Armed Forces of Ukraine through replacement, rotations, and so on. And at the same time, look for those among those whom we have not yet included in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, those whom we can motivate. Because this is how it works for us: the army is huge, we are constantly replenishing it, but at the same time we have that resource of military personnel who lives somewhere in the rear. And we pay them financial support,” Oleksandr Fedienko summed up.

(C)UNIAN 2025