⚡️Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a new comprehensive plan for mobilization in Ukraine, which is to be presented next week. According to the president, it is important that people understand the full plan of action. “I really believe that next week. At least, this task …

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1. ⚡️Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a new comprehensive plan for mobilization in Ukraine, which is to be presented next week.

   According to the president, it is important that people understand the full plan of action.

   “I really believe that next week. At least, this task has been set for Zaluzhnyi, Umierov, and ministers, because many things also depend on economic issues that need to be resolved”, – Zelenskyy says.

2. Bad news for ukrainians :/ how long are we, NATO, letting them massacred by russian?

   Full embargo + nato boots is the only way for ukraine to win this war. Hitler bis needs to be stopped.

3. Given the references to economic factors which have to be addressed to allow the plan, this has the potential to be a large mobilization.

   Early in the war, Ukraine understandably did everything that it could to limit the impact of mobilization on its population and economy, but there is an increasingly vocal school of thought which thinks Ukraine relied too much on the promise of technology over manpower, to their detriment. For instance, they had been advised that an attack en masse against a small area of the front would likely be required for a breakthrough in their counter offensive, even though they would take significant casualties. Ukraine famously said that they were going to take a different approach so as not to subject to their countrymen to those casualties, but in doing so don’t have much to show for it, and may even have accumulated an equivalent number of casualties anyway by prolonging the war, even if they were sustained at a slower rate.

   Indeed, in his Economist piece, Zaluzhnyi himself spoke of the need for increased mobilization and manpower even while also still calling for transformative technological developments.

   This led many to believe that the military was going to change tack to be more aggressive in the scale of their attacks, and needed more men, but at least initially it wasn’t clear how it was going to be accomplished–hence, a lot of infighting over the last few weeks between the military and civilian leadership. Danilov made a great public case earlier this week that Russia would likely fully mobilize after the March elections; I’d be willing to bet that their private intelligence information on the topic is such that it scared everyone enough to reach this agreement on mobilization, and expedite it to try to gain at least a few months’ advantage over Russia before Russia mobilizes–because if it does, by manpower alone Ukraine will struggle to overcome the lopsidedness; all of NATOs supplied weapons won’t make a difference if there aren’t enough soldiers to equip.

   By and large, Ukraine commanders have been excellent stewards of their materiel and manpower resources, and I don’t forsee them pulling a Russia and wasting lives of a newly expanded army with say, human wave attacks and the like. But, the outcome of mobilization and expansion will unfortunately still most likely be more sacrifices borne by AFU… Here’s hoping that those sacrifices lead to swifter and more decisive victories.

4. Nato isn’t obliged to physically protect Ukraine

5. Fuck you Zelensky, you already fucked up with this war