After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the West once said a particularly popular "famous saying": "Let Ukraine fight to the last Ukrainian".
At the beginning, many people just thought it was a joke, but now, this sentence is slowly becoming a reality.
According to the Financial Times, the current Ukrainian army is once again in a huge crisis of serious shortage of manpower, and in order to solve this problem, the Ukrainian army not only recruits a large number of women, but even the sick have to go to the front line.
For example, one morning in November, of the four men standing in line at the Kiev recruitment station, all but one of them had been forcibly mobilized to join the army, one of whom had suffered a brain injury in an accident, one had a metal plate on his spine, and only the last was relatively normal, but he was also 42 years old and had never served in the army.
Normally, the average age of an army should be between 18 and 24 years old, but the young adults in Ukraine have either run abroad to escape military service, or have become corpses on the battlefield, and now the average age of Ukrainians on the front line has reached 30-40 years old, far exceeding the normal level.
According to the Ukrainian army, Ukraine has mobilized more than 1.2 million people, and so far, 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died and more than 120,000 have been injured, but judging from the manpower gap of the Ukrainian army, adding a zero to this ** number is probably a more reasonable data.
But even so, Ukraine is still complaining about the lack of manpower, and the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Zaluzhny, openly complained in an interview that to break the deadlock, it is necessary not only to have new capabilities in artillery, mine clearance and electronic warfare, but also to build up a manpower reserve.
However, after Zaluzhny complained about this, he was fiercely criticized by Ukrainian parliamentarians.
A few days ago, Bezuglaya, a member of Zelensky's Servant of the People party, criticized Zaluzhny by name, she said that Zaluzhny, as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, not only did not recover any major land, but lost a large number of personnel and equipment, and if the military leadership does not have any plans for the 2024 operation, only knows about conscription and mobilization of more Ukrainians, then this military leadership must **.
Last week, Ukraine suffered a big snowstorm, counting, now the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has entered the second winter, and now nearly one-fifth of Ukraine's land is under the control of Russia, but now Ukraine is on the verge of death, the old, weak, sick and disabled have to go to the front line to fight, and the contradictions between the military and ** are also deepening. Now, the biggest impact on Ukraine is not the battle on the front line, but the internal **, Zelensky's drastic replacement of many military and political leaders, including the Minister of Defense**, has no less impact than the Russian Wagner rebellion, but we all know that this internal struggle is not over yet, Zelensky's ultimate goal is to replace Zaluzhny, what about Zaluzhny?Will he not have the idea of replacing Zelensky?
The front line cannot be fought anymore, the political war between the top leaders has begun, and Ukraine is not far from the end.