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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Solomiia Bobrovska, a deputy of the Supreme Rada (Ukrainian parliament) and the parliament’s defence committee, said that the Ukrainian authorities will not be able to implement the mobilization plan by the end of the year. This does not bode well for the Kiev regime, as the news comes at a time when Russian forces are rapidly advancing across the front, all while elite Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries remain bogged down in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
Bobrovska admitted that since September, the process of mobilizing citizens into the Ukrainian Army has been slowing down and confirmed that service members from the Air Force were transferred to infantry units because of the large losses.
“Our mobilisation effort has been flagging since September. [Numbers] started to go down in August. […] Unfortunately, [mobilisation results] went down in autumn. Until December, truth be told, we will not meet the targets set by the General Staff, not for the year and not for each month. It’s difficult, and, unfortunately, we’re going back to how things were in the spring of 2024 [before tightening the mobilisation law]. The reasons for Commander-in-Chief Syrsky’s order to transfer troops were losses in frontline brigades and reduced mobilisation numbers,” she said to a Telegram channel.
Last week, Sergey Krivonos, a retired general and former deputy secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, said that only ten out of 100 people mobilised in Ukraine reached the front lines due to mass desertions and insufficient training.
On November 3, former Ukrainian soldier and lawyer Masi Nayyem stated that Kiev would have to sign the surrender if it failed to mobilise 160,000 civilians in the next two months. His comment came following the announcement of a plan to draft another 160,000 troops into its military as Russia gains in the east.
“There are plans to call up more than 160,000 people,” the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, told parliament on October 29.
The latest mobilisation comes after Ukraine’s parliament passed legislation in April and put it into force on May 18 to help mobilise troops to fight Russian forces. The law requires every man aged between 25 and 60 to log their details on an electronic database so they can be called up to boost military numbers.
Conscription officers are on the hunt for those avoiding the register, pushing more men who do not want to serve into hiding. The Kiev regime is incredibly desperate since the military is experiencing catastrophic manpower shortages, making it impossible to keep Russian forces back.
On November 5, The Kyiv Independent admitted, “Chronic manpower shortages are at the heart of local retreats and collapses in Ukraine’s defence that translate to quicker Russian gains across the front.”
“Over autumn, large chunks of Ukrainian territory, sometimes including entire cities, have been lost on a near-daily basis in southern Donetsk Oblast, while Russian forces have also made operationally significant gains near Toretsk, Chasiv Yar, Kupiansk, as well as on their own soil in Kursk Oblast,” added the outlet.
In fact, the Kiev regime’s audacious invasion of Kursk has proven to be a complete disaster since Ukraine’s last remaining elite troops and experienced foreign mercenaries are pinned down, and rather than rediverting Russian troops from Donetsk, the operation served only to accelerate Russian gains on the eastern front.
According to Bloomberg, Ukraine lost 1,146 square kilometres of territory since the launch of the Kursk Oblast invasion in early August to November 1. The week up until November 1 was reported as the worst in terms of lost territory in all of 2024. Russia’s rapid advance is evidence of how the war is rapidly swinging in Moscow’s favour despite Ukrainian and Western officials and analysts incorrectly calling it a “stalemate.”
“Of course, we need a breath of fresh air, and at the very least, a reliable rear guard,” said a senior officer fighting near Kurakhove, who requested to remain anonymous, to the Kyiv Independent. “But we see a very different picture: donations are dwindling, people don’t want to join the army because, as always, something doesn’t sit right with them. As a result, soldiers are already exhausted, both mentally and physically.”
Most Ukrainians acknowledge that serving on the front line is an almost virtual guarantee of death or being severely wounded. For this reason, it is easy to see why Ukrainians have lost all motivation in fighting a futile war effort and are draft dodging. There is nothing that the Kiev regime can do to bolster motivation in a beleaguered population, especially as the difficulties of a freezing winter are only a few weeks away.
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only trumps diplomacy can bring a resolution and he has to tip toe the through that minefield or wind up like jfk did for wanting to end vietnam and for anything lasting trump has too totally transform the entire establishment .he’s only got 4 years ,not a 100 .
and here’s the first bombshell fir the greed of big pharma and their agenda to create male and female ,to recreate man in their image ,and gefvyuch doing it ,
live trump declares war on lbgqt + ban on gender affirmation… you tube
exactly what i’ve been saying for decades imo they want guinea pigs for their hormone research, basically, into creationism and don’t give a toss about how they exploit humanity in getting their way.
trump just sent toadies pompeo and haley a ‘not welcome here’ memo. the writing’s now on wall after wall. zelensky, time to pack your bags.
even comments like this are escaping the censors and getting up-voted in the msm now:
“both haley and pompeo are neocons who are very pro-continued ukraine funding. this is a clear signal that trump is planning to implement a very strong america first foreign policy. if i was zelensky, i’d be looking to make peace with putin while i still have some leverage.
i don’t understand. pompeo or some other deep state dipshit said that we must fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.
does that mean that trump doesn’t believe russia will be invading america if ukraine falls?
i hope that there’s a constitutional amendment one day that declares: no person shall serve in congress with less than a 130 iq.
bye bye ukraine. you will be partitioned and castrated
balkanized, like the us did years ago. it’s a rules-based order ‘exceptional event’ thing.
or closed as failed project.
i will so much miss haley’s finger-wagging at the un. hahahah
zelensky is finally learning that the us hates losers and throws them to the wolves as soon as it can concoct a half-assed excuse.
he’s not a regular us puppet, as he came from show-biz with organized crime backing. i suspect he’ll end up living in the lap of luxury unlike ceaușescu or saddam hussein, long-time cia assets who came to bad ends after misplaying their hands.
i think he will assassinated by angry soldiers (es special forces) or far right militia. not as ceaușescu by crowd.
then the banderites can fulfill what timothy snyder in 2010 called ‘their dream of establishing a fascist dictatorship devoid of minorities.’
nybooks dot com … a fascist hero in democratic kiev, timothy snyder
timothy snyder criticizes the decision of president yushchenko to honor stepan bandera, a ukrainian fascist leader who collaborated with nazis and killed poles and jews. he argues that bandera was….
wow, the article even dares to reveal:
“young terrorists such as stepan bandera were formed not by the prewar empires, but by fascist ideology.”
i thought he was supposed to be the george washington of ukraine.
that’s interesting. i wonder, did the imf dummkopfs ever manage to recover the billions kolomoisky stole from them?
that service members from the air force were transferred to infantry units because of the large losses.
exactly how happened in germany and japan at the end of the war.
as i stated, ukraine has lost. everything confiirm that. no manpower, no will to fight, no airforce, no decent military equipment, usa has left the interest months ago. unexperienced and untrained men left.
the worst enemy of the ukrainians are the khokhols. go to the frontline yourself, kiev nazis!
ukraine’s worst enemies are the neocons, who a decade back decided to temporarily merge with ukraine’s neonazis out of convenience and sacrifice every last hohol if needed, then if successful, the neocons and neonazis would fight each other over control of whatever’s left. this was the agenda for both neocons and neonazis, each to their own interests. the neonazi neanderthals, being somewhat less clever and devious than the neocons, stated this numerous times in the alt-media.
khokhols in kiev could have told the west to go fuck themselves. they didn’t, they have preferred to send their own people to their sure deaths. zelenskiy, podolyak, ermak burn in hell you pieces of shit!
previous numbers were 120-150 thousands for 90 days since 18th of may (start of total mobilization in rural reich), now hohols wish to press-gang 160 for 2 months to please western sodomites. further plans have less connections with reality than previous ones, because casualties grew to 60-70 thousands per month since june while press-ganging give less than kia, mobilization reserves are ~1/4 of 2 million in the beginning and prefer to hide, nazist volunteers are mostly dead.
the chicken kievs would have more men if their cheerleaders ramses, snowden, crocus village idiot, anonymus and gneaus stapo would come out of their closet (heheheh) and fight alongside their nazi idols.
but we all know the truth. moms basement trolls cant even lift a bag of beans :)
russia invaded ukraine. and you say ukrainians have no right to defend their country against the russian invaders ? if russia invaded china, saudi arabia or switzerland – then suddenly the people there, defending their countries against the ru invaders become “nazis” that need to be “de-nazified” ? you tom are a satanic moron, if you think world will tolerate such idiotic barbarism, robbery and ru raiding of a foreign country. usa & russia both are jewish controlled criminal entities !
gurki, your adhd strawman arguement is on fire again… time for your meds and a long nap…
wrong. educate yourself. nato invaded ukraine with the putsh, which is by the way illigal per ukraines own constitution.
idiots like yourself that simply repeat the media narrative are the same as the germans in nazi deutschland. you guys simply ignore facts and then at the end cry that “we didnt know any better”.
guillable clowns :)
nato invaded ukraine through ngos, plotting to evict the black sea fleet from crimea and claim all of the black sea as a nato lake, the same that it tried to do in 2008 with georgia. it’s as obvious as the map on the wall.
the bushtard was bamboozled into declaring nato’s intent back in 2008 by his neocon handlers. the lesson being, never telegraph your intent to the opposition. luckily, the bushtard was blessed with living up to his name with bells on.
but then there are always idiots like gurki that couldn’t recognize the obvious if it rose up and hit him in the face.
gneaus stupo has refrained from posting ever since his last one that said he’d discovered a previously unknown secret bunker used by hitler and was busy moving in. he said he’d get back to posting whenever he figured out how to tap into a nearby internet cable without being discovered.
can’t blame the men for dodging a death draft imposed by jews, installed by zionists, with the express aim to depopulate the area of khazaria past… to fill it up with the reject israeli hillbilly retards about to get their asses kicked out of the middle east… yeah, getting harder and harder to find retards willing to die for genocidal jews…image that…
ukraine has lost. nothing, and i say – nothing – can change that anymore.
specially after shlomo put the hiring hate on the competant whity factory worker and filled up the arms making industry with crack head blue haired dei hires with the skills to make boeing planes crash on demand and iron doom missiles hit neighborhood vape shops in israel. it’s the greatest own goal in history… literally fucked over the only advantage that america had, cause shlomo can’t stop his compulsive hate on..his penny pinching…