With 165,000 dead and 200,000 soldiers injured and unable to return to the front, Zelensky is now recruiting retired and disabled Ukrainians. The last three weeks have been quite disastrous for Ukraine, only in Bakhmut Kiev has lost over 12,000 soldiers, in addition to losing more than 5,000 defending Soledar.
So this is how recruitment is going in Ukraine….
Ruslan Kubay, a Ukrainian man shown above is without hands. Despite this disability he was mobilized by the Ukrainian Government. He told them he doesn’t have hands, can’t hold a gun, but they still picked him up. Eventually Ruslan was able to get medical clearance for his disability and was released.
It was recently reported in the Wall Street Journal that the AFU now fires just 40,000 shells a month. This is a stunning admission because the rate was previously 5,000-6,000 shells a day, or 150,000 a month; they changed the metric to attempt to hide this fact. The RuF meanwhile has stayed consistent at around 20,000 shells a day since late Summer.
This means the Russian firepower advantage has increased from around 3:1 to an almost 19:1 rate. Add in the mobilization resolving manpower difficulties, it’s clear why Russian successes have been developing in quick succession lately.