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According to the General Staff, Ukraine is missing 500,000 soldiers. New mobilization laws have been signed. A US political scientist is of the opinion that this is not enough.
Kiev – Only on Tuesday did the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed new so-called war laws to expand mobilization for the Ukraine war. Ukrainians should therefore no longer be subject to military service from the age of 27, but from the age of 25. The Ukrainian General Staff has announced that Ukraine would lack 500,000 soldiers to defend itself against the Russian aggressor. But how Ukraine should defend itself in the future is the subject of controversial debate within NATO.
In a post on the British news and opinion website UnStove Romanian-American military strategist, political scientist and historian Edward Luttwak described his view of the situation in Ukraine – and declared that “NATO countries will soon have to send soldiers to Ukraine.” He believes this is “inevitable,” writes Luttwak, otherwise the NATO states “will have to accept a catastrophic defeat.”
The political scientist estimates Ukraine's troop strength to be too low despite the lowering of the conscription age, he writes, and predicts that the Ukrainian troops will “keep being pushed back and lose soldiers in the process.” According to the political scientist, the Russian army is already numerically superior to the Ukrainian one, regardless of quality.
NATO troops could help in Ukraine without being deployed in the war
France's President Emmanuel Macron first caused a stir in February with his statement at a meeting with supporting states. At the meeting, Macron said he did not rule out sending troops to Ukraine. The Élysée has now made it clear that it is not about an imminent deployment of combat troops. Macron was sharply criticized by his allies for his move and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decisive “no” to sending troops to Ukraine remains.
Luttwak also does not call for the deployment of NATO troops on the front, as he explained in his contribution. Rather, it would be about NATO units relieving the Ukrainians of the burden of salvaging and repairing damaged equipment technical training programs for recruits take over. “These NATO soldiers may never be deployed – but they don't have to be to help Ukraine make the most of its own scarce workforce,” explains the political scientist in his article in UnStove.
US President Biden against sending troops to Ukraine
In the The US proposal to send troops to Ukraine has so far been negative rated. National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told US newspaper reports Politico According to Macron's move in February: “President Biden has made it clear that the United States will not send troops to fight in Ukraine.”
The people of Ukraine have been fighting for over two years. At least 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers are said to be in Ukraine war died, US officials told the in August 2023 New York Times explained. In December 2023, wives of Ukrainian soldiers demonstrated in Ukraine and demanded demobilization. But Ukraine lacks soldiers.
The war laws that Zelensky issued on Tuesday are intended to expand mobilization. It also includes a central electronic register for conscripts and a new medical assessment of the physical condition of men who were previously decommissioned. Reports of the taz According to him, the laws are just a prelude to the passage of broader laws to expand mobilization for the war in Ukraine. (pav)
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