As the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to escalate, both sides have run over large numbers of fighters as they launch countless weapons and equipment onto the battlefield. The issue of soldiers, a fundamental element of the war, is testing the sustained fighting capabilities of both Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian side announced on the 24th that a new round of recruitment and mobilization will begin and relevant persons under the age of 60 will receive a recruitment notice. The latest Ukrainian military recruitment has attracted great attention from the outside world. In the end, does this action mean that the Ukrainian army will reconstitute its troops for a large-scale counter-offensive, or will it cause heavy losses of its own troops due to continued combat operations? How much potential for military mobilization does Ukraine have? And what about the excavation? In addition to the number of soldiers, from the real point of view of the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine, due to the rigidity of the war, temporarily recruited soldiers are often deployed on the battlefield after a short training. Military literacy also places high needs.
Ukrainian conscription again
According to the Russian “Independence” report of the 25th, Maximov, head of the Center for Recruitment and Social Support in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, revealed in an interview published on the 24th that Kiev has started a new round of mobilization. “We have to increase our potential, increase the number of troops,” Maximov said. “We see that our troops are conducting offensive operations in certain directions. Of course, we must have a considerable number of troops. I believe the mobilization will continue. Forward. It is necessary. The Ukrainian army needs troops, not just for defense,” but also for the offense, to free our territory “.
The Ukrainian side stressed that, in the current situation, the mobilization will continue until 2023. When asked who should be the first to receive the draft warning, Maximoff’s answer is from all those who have military service obligations. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense explained to reporters a few days ago that, considering the state of war in the country, notices of conscription can be issued at any time and place, as long as it does not violate the law. The Ukrainian state news agency said in a 24th article that the Ukrainian army needs supplies of soldiers, which is why it is necessary to continue mobilization.All conscripts under the age of 60 are expected to receive conscripts. of citation.
In fact, this is not the first time the Ukrainian government has mobilized troops since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. According to the Ukrainian state news agency, Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov said in an online conference on July 8 that Ukraine has mobilized more than 700,000 military troops, more than 90,000 national guard troops, and more than 60,000. There are more than 100,000 border guard soldiers and more than 100,000 national policemen and the total mobilization force exceeds 1 million.
Some analysts believe that, in this context, it remains to be seen how much potential for military mobilization can be exploited by the convocation order issued by the Ukrainian government. However, there are also opinions that the age range required by the latest draft order to be under 60 cannot be considered direct evidence of the extreme shortage of fighters in Ukraine. Because the Ukrainian military recruiting standard has always been set in this age group after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
The Russian “Izvestia” reported on the 24th that the editor of the Russian magazine “National Arsenal” Alexei Leonkov said that Ukraine still has the potential to mobilize: some groups of the population have not yet participated in military operations and mobilization has scarce effect. Village. Previously, conscription and mobilization were mainly recruited from the eastern and central regions of the country, and the western part was not affected, but it has been shown that Ukraine’s mobilization resources are not unlimited, so the Ukrainian side has to find new ways to replenish the army. At the moment, the main question is where to recruit Ukraine and whether Ukraine can complete the recruitment within the necessary time.
According to a report by the Russian federal news agency on the 24th, former Ukrainian member of Verkhovna Rada Oleg Tsarev said that Kiev’s desire to continue the mobilization is understandable. The fact is that Ukraine is now able to train and arm around 50,000 people per month with EU help. The Ukrainian army had previously carried out a large-scale military mobilization, but the Ukrainian armed forces suffered heavy losses in the fighting. According to various data, 300,000 to 400,000 conscripts are now unable to fight due to various factors, so the Ukrainian military mobilization will continue to maintain the numerical superiority of the armed forces.
Stalling war demands a high quality of soldiers
Judging by the current development and changes in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, while Russia is using precision-guided ammunition and large-scale airborne ammunition to kill and destroy infrastructure in Ukraine, the ground battlefield is still in a state of “combat”.
In the eastern part of Ukraine, the two sides fought fiercely along the Crimea-Swatovo line and the result was relentless in many places. According to Russian news reports, the Ukrainian army continued to attack Russian targets in the Luhansk region using the “Haimas” rocket launcher. In the Donetsk region, the Russian army continued to launch attacks, concentrating on the area around Bakhmut.
In Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, the Russian army is establishing a reserve position near the Dnieper River to prepare for the defense of the city of Kherson. The Ukrainian army general staff said that the Russian army continued to lay mines on the main traffic roads in the Kherson region in an attempt to stop the Ukrainian army’s counter-offensive. The Southern Combat Command of the Ukrainian army also pointed out that the Russian army is also stepping up the construction of defensive positions in the process of evacuating civilian institutions and leaders. Ukrainian defense intelligence director Kirillo Budanov recently said that although the Russian military is launching an evacuation operation in the city of Kherson, creating the illusion that “everything has been evacuated”, in reality the Russian army it is moving towards Kherson. city and prepare for defensive operations in the city. Budanov said the Russian army will meet the fate of the Ukrainian army in Mariupol, in the city of Kherson, and the Ukrainian army is expected to take over the city of Kherson by the end of this year.
An anonymous military expert told the Global Times reporter that, judging by the overall situation of the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the war between the two sides has come to a standstill and the long battle lines are intertwined. According to the Ukrainian side, the battle line between the two sides is now more than 2,000 kilometers long. This type of staggered state requires an extremely high combat quality of individual soldiers. Both sides often face a combat environment of infiltration and reverse infiltration, maneuvering and anti-mobility For newly recruited recruits, this form of the battlefield is a “nightmare”.
Both Russia and Ukraine may face problems with the quality of their troops
Like the Ukrainian army, the Russian army appears to face a shortage of high-quality troops. Not long ago, the Russian government issued a mobilization order to recruit 300,000 people to join the army. Russian soldiers mobilized and deployed to fill gaps on the front lines of the conflict are affecting the Russian military’s combat effectiveness, the US Institute for War Research said. At the same time, due to the demands of the war, a large number of officers and NCOs from Russian military training institutions were sent to the front lines to fight, and casualties occurred, which also affected the Russian military training system. If there is a lack of professional instructors in training institutes, the quality of training for recruits will be significantly reduced.
The US War Institute’s analysis of the Russian army also applies to the Ukrainian army, which is even worse off. The most elite forces of the Ukrainian army are the troops that have been deployed in the Donbas region since 2014, but these troops have already suffered enormous consumption in combat operations in the first half of this year. Current Ukrainian soldiers are being integrated later. and can only fight side by side as you learn. The Ukrainian army also lacks personnel and training facilities and, what is worse, the Ukrainian army lacks a relatively stable rear and facilities such as training institutes must be the key targets of the Russian army.
Furthermore, the most critical point is that the current Ukrainian army relies mainly on the military assistance provided by the United States and the West to carry out its counter-offensive. The weapons and equipment used by the Ukrainian army in the counter-offensive come from many countries. . According to the multiple recall orders, the basic quality of the recruited soldiers must be “a generation is not as good as a generation”. In the case of the expansion and long-term conflict between Russia and Ukraine, whether the soldiers of the Ukrainian military can effectively control the weapons and equipment supplied by the United States and the West in the future could be a big problem.Back to Sohu, see more
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