“Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to the US president, said that the shortage of manpower in the Ukrainian army remains an acute problem, despite significant military assistance from the West. Source: Sullivan in an interview with Bloomberg, reported by “Europeyska Pravda” Details: Sullivan noted that Ukraine has already lowered the age of mobilization from 27 to 25, but added that over time the problem with human resources in the Ukrainian army has changed.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to the US president, said that the shortage of manpower in the Ukrainian army remains an acute problem, despite significant military assistance from the West.
Source: Sullivan in an interview with Bloomberg, “European Truth” reports
Details: Sullivan noted that Ukraine has already lowered the age of mobilization from 27 to 25, but added that over time the problem with human resources in the Ukrainian army has changed.
“It has escalated over the past year, and the need for Ukraine to be able to fully staff its brigades and battalions – because we have provided them with a huge amount of ammunition and military equipment that they need – has increased,” Sullivan said.
Biden’s national security adviser noted that Donald Trump’s new team was also briefed on these issues.
Direct speech: “We made it clear (to Ukraine. – ed.), in particular and publicly, that the availability of manpower is an acute problem. And this is something that Ukraine will have to solve even when we contribute to providing them with the necessary weapons.”
Details: At the same time, he admitted that this is a “sovereign decision that must be taken by the Ukrainian side, and it is necessary.”
Prehistory:
- Donald Trump’s future national security adviser Mike Waltz said the day before that Ukraine should lower the mobilization age to 18 in order to attract hundreds of thousands of new soldiers and stabilize the front line.
- Last year, there were public and non-public calls from the US for Ukraine to lower the mobilization age to 18, with the argument that the shortage of personnel at the front is becoming critical, and it is because of this that Russia manages to advance in the east.
- According to the mass media, the disputes surrounding the quantitative indicators of mobilization and the mobilization age have led to tensions in the relations between the presidents of Ukraine and the USA.