It’s 300 thousand at best
Did you count pregnant women, children, the elderly and the disabled?
Wasn’t there something a while back about the average age of a Ukrainian soldier being 43 – not particularly old for a politician, say, or a general, but for somebody serving on the front lines practically geriatric? And the government having such a severe manpower shortage that they were starting to draft women and rush them to the front with only two weeks’ training?
43 seems pretty average for a full mobilization in war time. Standing volunteer armies are usually limited to 18-30, but when it’s all hands on deck, extending the age to 50 is pretty normal. For example a lot of the armies in WW2 were a lot older then people realize, with a lot of 35-55 year olds. Plus you can still drive a supply truck, be a field hospital orderly, or man an anti aircraft battery perfectly fine at 45-60, so a lot of older personnel are allocated to support roles.
No, an average of 43 is woefully old for any time’s standard. I don’t know where you are getting your data, but Red Army during WW2 had an average age of 24-25 (according to Erich Wollenberg’s The Red Army), and the US army was 26. Most armies keep their mobilized to under-40s. Just because some older guys can be assigned to support duties doesn’t mean they are conscripted in mass numbers. That’s not how statistics work.
43 means you have chewed through your 18-40 year olds. It means that, at best your army has as many 18-40 year olds as it has 41-80 year olds. An average of 43 means that for every 18 year old in the army, there’s an 80 year old as well. Obviously that’s not the case. But it illustrates that the average Ukrainian fighter is between 30-50, which means most of the 18-30 year old males are either dead or wounded and incapable to fight.
300 thousand with 300 thousand in supporting roles. seems believable. They have 4 million men of appropriate age after all
They’re planning to take Milei’s lead. When they change the law to say that everyone over 12 is now an adult, voila.
Wikipedia is clearly funded by Putin, in reality Ukraine is encircling Vladivostok and about to end Putin’s regime. Zelensky has been spotted fighting on the frontlines, and has personally killed 10 thousand Russians.
And when he’s not out fighting, Rambo style, the Evil RuZZian aZiatic invaderZ, he entertains the troops with his peculiarly masculine style of piano playing.
he entertains the troops with his peculiarly masculine style of piano playing.
The same as the SS soldier from the urban myth?
