Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law on Tuesday that lowers the age of eligible conscripts for mobilization from 27 to 25, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
The bill was passed by Ukraine’s parliament last May but had been sitting on Zelensky’s desk for nearly a year since expanding the draft is unpopular among Ukrainians as war fatigue has been setting in.
Zelensky also signed two other laws aimed at getting more troops for the failing war effort against Russia. One requires men who have been declared only “partially fit” for service to undergo another medical examination.
Another law will establish an electronic database for military-age men between the ages of 17 and 60, as Ukraine looks to mobilize hundreds of thousands of fresh troops. Under martial law, men ages 18 to 60 cannot leave the country.
Zelensky signed the laws a few weeks after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) visited Ukraine and demanded a change to the conscription laws. “I would hope that those eligible to serve in the Ukrainian military would join. I can’t believe it’s at 27,” Graham said. “You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving — not at 25 or 27. We need more people in the line.”
In the early days of the war, Graham said Ukraine would be willing to “fight to the last person” as long as the US continued to provide military aid. Now that hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and it’s become clear Ukraine has no chance of winning on the battlefield, hawks in the US are still looking to fuel the proxy war against Russia.
Lindsey Graham is eager to fight Russia but of course he won’t do it himself, he’ll send Ukraine’s children to fight Russia for him while he sits in his cozy Washington office sipping his morning Late https://media4.giphy.com/media/Q6joirtIBHUsw/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Just like Putin. 🤷🏽♂️
Putin’s not looking to fight Russia
No, only neighboring countries that dont want anything to do with Russia.
Don, not to offend you, but you need some help, you appear to have serous cognitive problems, maybe you should see a doctor?
Yeah yeah, sure. I get that a lot plus many insults from you, putin lovers. Nothing new.
And you are still a hypocrite. 🤷🏽♂️
You are a nice guy, you would never forget to say thank you.
Considering the list of countries the USA has bombed, invaded or regime changed in the last 23 years, Putin unfortunately has a reasonable expectation that his neighbours allying with NATO present a danger to Russia’s national security. I don’t blame him for responding.
So the IDIOT from SC can tell the clown in Kiev what he has to do to get money from DC.
HILARIOUS IF IT WERE NOT SO SAD. and scary
The crazies are ruling western democracies, the people that gave us BI, and TR gave the Germans SCHO. and company and the French MAC. and the British SU and the creeps in the EU.
The CIA and MI6 people are in charge and roam the world.
Ok, Putin lover.
Whatever you say.
Warmongering Globalist spawn of John McCain Graham is literally and figuratively pushing the war….WTF is the “we” in his quote ” “You’re in a fight for your life, so you should be serving — not at 25 or 27. We need more people in the line.”
Fascist Groupthinker “serving”…
“To serve man”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0734684/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl
I suggest sending King Zelensky to the front lines. The comedian is a sick joke.
He has been in the frontlines, many times.
Has your boy, Putin?
Green screens don’t count
Tell that to Kremlin officials. You dont need green screens in Ukraine. The entire country is a combat zone.
You dumbass.
*Yawn* foreigners doing foreign things in a far off land no one has ever heard of.
Actually most people have heard or know about Ukraine.
But there are Some idiots like you that cannot even point it on a map.
Use the internet more often. It helps.
Why? Just exit and no problem.
It sounds like you want to kill others, and you should just stop.
The US didn’t understand Iraq… or Libya. It broke both… for no reason. Why break Ukraine?
Sure, you don’t need green screens in Ukraine. Yet Zelenski does need them. Think it through.
Zelensky should go to the front and entertain the troops. Raise their morale. He could play the piano, hands free. The guys would love it.
Putin is in Russia. This is the US.
Why would an American care about a foreign conflict except to want to end it and to otherwise stay out of it?
Ukraine is not in US. Ukraine is getting invaded and annexed by Putin.
Dont you talk much trash about Israel invading Palestine?
You guys are the biggest hypocrites ever.
You just cannot keep your narrative straight.
What narrative? The US should exit everywhere, and all I say about Israel is it shouldn’t be funded.
I could make a more nuanced argument, but I don’t need to. Exit everywhere. If you like Russia or Israel so much, then move there. You always talk about Putin. Go serve him… or fight him… or whatever you want. It has nothing to do with the USA.
Let’s see the bunch of Putin Lovers, Ukraine haters coming to criticize Ukraine for mobilizing his country that’s been invaded and annexed by a power that has done insane things to mobilize hundreds of thousands of their young, old, ill, and criminal men to die for Putin.
Come on, hypocrites. Type away your hatred.
HYPOCRITE ? look in the mirror this war was started by the Americans and Brits , who lied about the Minsk Agreement ? , who was taped on a phone call discussing who the next Ukraine leader would be ? , who talked Zelensky out of a peace deal with Putin ? , who was handing out Cookies after the COUP ? , ect ect ect .
The Minsk Agreement was a handshake agreement just like the Budapest agreement was. Grow up.
Who lied about invading then invaded and annexed to steal grain and natural gas rich land. And and establish a land corridor to Crimea.
You are full of it repeating Kremlin propaganda.
Congrats First hypocrite.
Actually it’s because Zelensky wants to kill and oppress the Ukrainians in the little sliver of east Ukraine that don’t support his rule. He had a chance to honor the Minsk agreements (like he said he would), but he chose violence instead. Now this whole country is sadly burning.
You are repeating Kremlin propaganda.
Congrats, second hypocrite.
So far, the “change” is that 25 year olds can be drafted, but mobilization for combat can still only happen at 27. If there is still a Ukraine in 2 years, maybe this will… still not make any difference whatsoever.
Just like Britain in WW1 a whole generation killed for WHAT ? , then 20 years later the same thing the British Establishment had to import migrants in the fifties because there were no young men to left to do the work and Zelensky is going down the same road .
France volunteered.
They didn’t “have to” import them. But any excuse to undermine nationalism is a good excuse. Ukraine fights for nationalism so that a new nation can arise to replace it in the near future.
And the war has always been pointless.
Zelensky is well on his way to lowering the Ukrainian Army troop strength to 25… Maybe then he’ll wise up and shoot himself so as to allow them to surrender.
C’mon Zel, you can do it just like your hero Adolf!
More bribes for the doctors.
The doctors know there’s no point in sending more slave soldiers to the front now. Better just take the money. Ukraine’s corruption being on the level of Gabon and other African states. You even pay bribes to get your driver’s license.
So Graham actually did a “fight to the last Ukrainian” statement. It’s not just a joke.
I wonder what Israel’s agents Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell filmed him doing.
Probably still inviting him to the new island, still recording.
Finally makes sense to me. Eventually he’ll win the propaganda war by accusing the Russians of being baby killers.
We send 18 year old kids off to war!
Details: Under the new rules, men who were found to be partially fit for service will have to undergo another medical examination within 9 months.
New rules indicate that there are only two categories of people – fit and unfit for military service. The status of partially fit has been cancelled.
Therefore, another medical commission must determine which category a person belongs to if he or she was previously considered “partially fit”.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say those who were determined to be “partially fit” previously will now be determined to be “fit”.
Cannon fodder.
Ukraine needs an Underground Railroad to save those young men from being sent to the mine fields.
Right now, the only people dying in mine fields are Russians. (Plenty of videos documenting it.)
You tankies seem to forget that a generation of Russians is also dying to prop up the little KGB man.
Why are you not clutching-your-pearls over those dead Russians? (Blind spot or is your Putin-love that great?)
Lots of younger Ukrainians and Russians have already fled to avoid military enslavement.
Graham says, “Best money ever spent.”
I’m not knowledgeable about the draft, I thought the US draft in Vietnam was for young men, like 18-26. How come Ukraine is drafting much older men (27-50)? Everyone fled?
If I’m not mistaken, Ukraine is drafting all ages 18-60, or at least forbidding them to leave the country because they’re eligible for drafting.
But there’s a particular middle age group, 27-50 who are eligible to be drafted for combat deployment, as opposed to the vast majority of most armies that does other things (cooks food, drives trucks, etc.).
Huh? 18 is the right age, you can convince an 18 year old that running towards a machine gun is a good idea, 25 year olds that is a bit tougher.