Ukraine faces recruitment challenges • FRANCE 24 English

As the war enters its 20 22nd month Ukraine is seeing its funds dwindling but it’s also facing a recruitment issue tell us more absolutely there is a a huge societal debate here which is about mobilization uh the Army is trying to uh find out how just how much equipment how

Many men uh more they will need for the coming uh year and this has been subject to debate a few days ago the President Vladimir zinski said that the Army had asked him to organize the recruitment of an additional half a million men uh to be sent to the front line which is

Something the commander-in chief Valeri actually said he was not in a place uh to request from the president actually he explained that as a commander-in chief he participates to um to work in groups with the uh defense minister where he States regularly uh how many uh how much equipment how much ammunition

Uh how many men his army uh might need without giving uh necessarily A a number for a specific year this is a very moving situation a very moving uh very a front line that is evolving constantly so he States his needs and then the defense minister uh

Then places a request to the cabinet the ministerial cabinet which then asks the Ukrainian parament to uh to approve uh or not a draft law and such a draft law on mobilization has been submitted to the Ukrainian Parliament on Christmas Day on the 25th of December uh it

Proposes among other measures to lower the mobilization aid from 27 to 25 year which is of course something that uh uh is subject to debate here in society those of the men who wanted to join they’ve already done so 22 months ago so it’s more difficult now for the

Government to entice more men to join the Army but the need is there in front of an aggressive country Russia which uh keeps on mobilizing its men and uh seems to be using uh its Army and its men as Dependable on the front line Elle can

You also give us an an update on the situation on the ground well uh as we are uh in the middle of the winter here we see that the the front line is not moving uh a lot there’s been this claim this Russian claim that Russia is now in total

Control of marinka but marinka is uh is just uh is just Rebels now after years two years almost of constant shelling and that’s what we we see on the front line when does a Russian Advance it advances on Rebels rebels uh that have been has been created by those fights

And uh and uh there was a there was a shelling yesterday on the region on the city of hon has on heavily shell because it’s just on one side of the nio opposite to where Russian troops still are so we see that there’s several hotpots that are still being constantly

Shell there’s no advance from Ukrainian troops but uh even if there are uh in inferiority in terms of Manpower in terms of equipment they still hold on uh they don’t manage to break through the uh Russian defenses as of now but they still hold on to the territories that

They are defending defending sorry thank you Emanuel Emanuel

As Russia’s war against Ukraine enters its 22nd month, Ukraine is seeing its funds dwindling but is also facing a recruitment issue. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze tells us more.
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30 comments

  2. In 2023 an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. 0:25

  3. why is russia not winning? Ukraine has recruitment challenges and is getting no help from US or EU right now. Russia is in full war economy and is backed by major oil and gas reserves, and russia is backed China, Belraus, North Korea, Iran, Hamas, Trump… But they still can't defeat one of the poorest countries in Europe🤣🤣

  5. I wonder why. Ukraine pays 1500 USD a month and the probability of being a casualty is zero. Aren't we told Ukraine casualties are 20k out of 750k?

  12. They don’t have manpower, weapons and ammunition because they got tired for fighting too long war. Lots of dollars died and injured on battlefield

  13. west sponsored this war by provoking Russia
    west kept the war going by providing arms
    let the west keep the war alive by sending humans too

  19. USA already announced a shift in strategy for Ukraine. Biden will most likely convince the Republican Party to support a reduced military aid for Ukraine that will focus instead on defense sacrificing counter offensives but it doesn't mean Ukraine can't do counter offensive. Ukraine just needs to find other sources of military aid to continue their counter offensive. With military aid being reduced, new recruits also reduced, Ukraine should think about engaging diplomatic talks with Russia without assuming anything negative.

  22. Stop sacrificing your people just to join nato, you had a peace agreement and nato said and told no thanks, now 100's of thousands of Ukrainians are gone.

  23. Imagine receiving almost $75 Billions worldwide (USA, UK, Germany, Japan, etc) and don't produce any positive outcome from receiving the charity😒. If it was any other entity, they would've been sued and jailed.

  25. No surprise they face challenges when the average lifespan for a Ukrainian soldier is just over 4hrs like in bakhmut.

  28. Ukraine allegedly facing existential threat shouldn’t need a draft – that’s one thing it shouldn’t need. It’s up to them. They can decide it’s not worth fighting for. Fine.

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