Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Currently, some brigades of the Ukrainian army are only 40% staffed. This was stated on February 22 by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the head of the Servant of the People faction, David Arakhamia, his words were quoted by the Ukrainian publication Strana․ua.
“We have no choice at all whether to mobilize or not. <…> Because we have a large shortage of brigades. There are brigades where the complement is generally 40%,” he said.
According to Arakhamia, if mobilization is not carried out, the Russian army will break through the front, and then, according to him, it will be too late to send “at least a million” mobilized to the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As Regnum reported earlier, on February 22, the Speaker of the Rada announced the need to strengthen mobilization in Kiev-controlled territory given the lack or absence of military assistance from the United States. Arakhamia also announced the possibility of raising taxes in Ukraine for the training and equipment of Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters.
Earlier on the same day, the Strana․ua publication wrote that Ukraine would be able to mobilize a maximum of 850 thousand people without damaging the economy, which was already seriously damaged. It was noted that if mobilization affects hundreds of thousands more workers, most of the country’s economy will simply stop.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on December 19, 2023 that the Kiev authorities have already carried out nine waves of mobilization and the tenth is still ongoing. He added that people with limited fitness for military service began to be drafted into the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
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