“More fertilizer for our land,” said Ksenia Borodenko, a 33-year-old sales manager Al Jazeera in the center of Kiev, a few hours from the Russian president Vladimir Putin announced itWednesday morning they plan to mobilize more troops.
Ukrainian soldier on the frontPhoto: Twitter / GeneralStaffUA
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But the fate of the Ukrainian army, which will have to face new troops of “Russians” – a neologism that unites “Russian” and “fascist” – worries her.
“Our kids will die fighting this scum,” said Borodenko, whose older brother Roman volunteered to fight pro-Russian separatists in 2014 and re-enlisted in March. “Even if we lose one of our percent of theirs, it will be tragic,” he says.
A community leader from the Kiev-controlled part of the southeastern Donetsk region shared his opinion.
“The elimination of the Russians will be more intense,” said Nadia Gordiuk, forced to leave her town, located a few kilometers from the front line, due to intense Russian bombing.
However, “if the mobilization increases, many more civilians will die in the east [Ucrainei]which [rușii] the faces have come to protect them. This is really scary, “he told Al Jazeera.
Ihor Trubenok, a sound engineer from Kiev, expressed his feelings more bluntly.
“The Ukrainian people have no choice but to kill the Russian occupiers,” he said. “And since there are no other options, we don’t give a damn about **** and who they mobilize.”
Ukrainian troops are not afraid
The commander of the Ukrainian army, Mr.General Valery Zalujnîi, said that the armed forces of Ukraine will destroy all enemieshowever many there may be, in reaction to the announcement of a partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, he reports Ukrainska Pravda.
Even for Ukrainian soldiers, mobilized Russians are not a problem, at least so far.
“Until they are trained and turned into a team, it will take several months and we can take a cigarette break,” joked a Ukrainian soldier. Al Jazeera.
“If they don’t form a team and send them straight to the front line, it will be nothing but a stupid slaughter. It’s unpleasant, it’s boring, but it’s not something we should fear as a serious problem,” he says.
The day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilization in Russia, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the army of the Russian Federation lost nearly 6,000 soldiers in the war in Ukraineaccording to TASS and Meduza.
Shoigu tries to raise the morale of the Russians: “half of the Ukrainian army is lost”
Shoigu also claimed that since the beginning of the war, Ukraine recorded 61,000 deaths between the army and 49,000 wounded, Meduza notes.
According to Şoigu, “half of the army is lost”.
Instead, in its update on Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry says so over 55,000 Russian soldiers died since the beginning of the invasion.
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