On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Zelensky** took the initiative to say the number of Ukrainian troops killed at a press conference in Kyiv, "not 300,000 or 150,000, but 3."10 thousand. Then there was an output, asking the West to quickly follow up the aid, and proudly emphasized that on the battlefield, the firepower of the Russian army and the Ukrainian army on the front line was almost 7:1, while the ratio of battle losses between the Russian army and the Ukrainian army was 5:1....Hinting at the West, we are very powerful, and we will not regret betting on it. 
So, calculated in this way, Ukraine, which has a standing army of 250,000, still has more than 210,000 men and horses left, why not quickly regain the lost territory? Just so many people died, but four pieces of land were lost, it doesn't logically fit! Is the Ukrainian army grinding foreign workers? Moreover, referring to this battle loss ratio, such a powerful Ukrainian army should have crossed the Caucasus Mountains and drank Lake Mabaikal a long time ago. Also, suppose what he says is all true. Then Ukraine can be regarded as a super god of war country, and the first thing that should tremble is NATO - if Ukraine turns its head to the west, who in Europe can bear it? 
So we saw that after this figure was announced by Zelensky, even the Associated Press and CNN, which have always been known for reversing black and white, did not quote casually, but deliberately marked the words "unverifiable" in the report. After all, Ukraine has already engaged in more than a dozen national mobilizations so far. What kind of ** "catching strong men" on the street has long been considered news. For example, this is the beginning of last year, when Ukrainian conscripts rushed into people's homes to arrest people directly. The uncle in the picture below who looks old (of course, it may also be bald and fat and looks old) is being erected and forcibly dragged away, and the child is dragging the placket of the father's (or grandfather) shirt, and is pushed away by two conscripts and rudely thrown into the corner. A disabled old man with both hands amputated and blind also received a conscription summons from the Ukrainian army. 
Note that this is the case at the beginning of 2023. Starting in May 2023, Ukrainian conscripts have been going to Europe to "catch strong men", trying to include these Runren into the army. According to statistics, there are at least 60,000 to 80,000 Ukrainian men of working age registered in Poland alone. In addition, in France, Germany and other countries, there are at least 200,000 to 300,000 young and middle-aged Ukrainian men of working age. 
But these people have a relatively good background, so the overseas "strong men" are not very smooth. After all, in February 2022, after Ukraine** banned young and middle-aged men from going abroad, they were all able to successfully run out, and they were definitely not ordinary people. In September, the Ukrainian army began to register eligible female physicians, pharmacists, **, etc. nationwide. Among them, all female students who have graduated from the school are required to register for Selective Service and be ready to be drafted at any time. Then, more and more old people and women appeared in the Ukrainian army. 
Everyone must have seen that before. The Russian army on the front line captured a female soldier of the Ukrainian army, and the female soldier kept shouting - don't shoot, I'm pregnant. Moreover, not long before this ** outflow, the Ukrainian army did display military uniforms specially designed for pregnant women. 
In February 2024, the new draft law on mobilization proposed by the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine will further expand the scope of conscription - "disabled people of the third category" may also be conscripted into the service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including the following: 1Missing or blind in one eye;2.Partially deaf;3.Tracheostomy was performed;4.The lower jaw is defective and cannot chew normally;5.Suffering from dwarfism (male< 130cm);6.Absence or loss of function of the arm;7.Amputation to the thigh;8.Missing fingers;9.Both feet are missing;10.Implantation of a pacemaker;11.There is only one functioning kidney;12.Only one lung is working;13.Suffered "traumatic castration";14.There is a brain abscess;15.There is a significant skull defect;16.Have Parkinson's disease;17.Scoliosis is severe;18.Has severe thoracic deformity;19.There is "severe adrenal insufficiency";20.Bladder defects. According to the world, Ukraine, as the largest country in Europe (not counting Russia), has a population of more than 43 million. It actually asked women, even pregnant women, old men and disabled people to go to war. No matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem like it's only 3The appearance of 10,000 people. The four prefectures of eastern Ukraine were occupied by the Russian army, and more than 300,000 Runren ran away during the war. Together, these people are at most more than 10 million people, and the remaining more than 30 million people are under the control of Kyiv. 
Moreover, in the war, they are trying to avoid letting women and children go to the front. Because of the post-war economic reconstruction, there is a need for children and a young working population. But Ukraine has even mobilized the "European womb", which shows that the gap in the front line is indeed very large, and there are simply not enough reservists and prime-aged men. It's almost like the rhythm of a generation to be emptied. 
Therefore, in this crazy situation of "catching strong men", he died 3The figure of 10,000 is indeed quite unscrutinizing. Of course, you can say that although Ukraine is very different in size compared with Russia, it can't be stopped, and unlike Russia, which is surrounded by sanctions, Ukraine can get continuous foreign aid. Therefore, there is not much pressure on production in Ukraine, and it can let go of the mobilization of male and female strong men in the country. But from another point of view, it doesn't seem to be a very optimistic thing for you to taste the product. Just look at Russia, its energy and food can be produced by itself, and the Western sanctions are with the East, which is obviously more able to withstand the consumption of war. And in the past 30 years of Ukrainian independence, they have denounced the "oppression" of the Soviet era on the one hand; On the one hand, lying on the remains of the Soviet Union, heavily dependent on the industries left by the Soviet Union, neither the military industry nor the energy industry, which could not be self-sufficient, patronized infighting, and pinned its hopes on the pie drawn by the West.
After the start of the war, Ukraine's economy relied on aid; **Equipment also relies on foreign aid. It's all on your own, and it's basically taking the lives of the people to fill in the line. As a result, as soon as the foreign aid from the West, especially the United States, decreased, the Ukrainian army had to abandon Avdeyevka, and the wounded were evacuated in a panic before they had time to take them away. As for the real number of people in Ukraine, you can refer to the data before the two countries that have been most active in aiding Ukraine. In January 2023, nearly a year after the start of the war, the British Ministry of Defense estimated that more than 60,000 Ukrainian troops were killed; In August 2023, U.S. intelligence estimated that at least 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers were killed; And at the beginning of September 2023, Ukraine's largest mobile telecommunications operator "Kyiv Star" held a charity event, calling for text messages to be sent to Ukrainian fallen soldiers, with the content of "thank you". The content of the copy in this ** says that at present, there are more than 400,000 "heroes" who can no longer receive this text message. But soon after, ** was taken off the shelves.
And the specific data about **, perhaps even after the war, the two countries will not be fully disclosed. But whether it is Russia or Ukraine, most of the people who are conscripted are ordinary people, and those who have money and power are hiding overseas and living a drunken life. Last year, Austrian netizens continued to post a number of luxury cars with Ukrainian license plates parked on the streets of Vienna - Mercedes-Benz, Bentley, and Lamborghini. All major luxury car brands, everything is available. I don't know, I thought that Vienna was doing some kind of "sea and sky feast" with a large number of rich people recently.
But whether it is Russia or Ukraine, there is one thing we seem to have to admit that when they fight, they all have a kind of "fighting national characteristics" - the Eastern Slavs have always been martial but not very good at fighting, but they are very resistant to beating. In most cases in history, the "fighting nation" fought a relatively devastating and withered war at the beginning, and almost all of them were forced to the time when they were least "hara-less" before they suddenly rose into a violent army, and then consumed the other side to death at a great price and in the form of a "miserable victory". Outsiders may think that they have suffered a lot of losses, but they themselves feel that as long as they achieve their combat goals, they can already be called "Hara Few". Typical, the "Great Patriotic War" against Napoleon's French army and the "Great Patriotic War" against Nazi Germany. The embarrassing thing is that in the above two wars, the "fighting nation" also includes the current Ukraine. Ukraine, which also once belonged to its main force. The picture below is the scene of a military parade in Kyiv, Ukraine, on the 59th Victory Day of the Great Patriotic War in 2010. Behind the flags of the Ukrainian units are the names of the Soviet troops of the era of the Great Patriotic War.
Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers dressed in Soviet uniforms and holding high Soviet battle flags were reviewed.
There is also a scene of cosplaying the Soviet army.
The joint phalanx of the Russian and Ukrainian armies, composed of the Ukrainian ** Guard and the Russian 45th Special Operations Brigade, walked side by side across the rostrum to show the brotherhood of the two countries and the two armies.
At that time, the ** of Ukraine was the pro-Russian Yanukovych. But he's an elected ** anyway. This naturally also shows that the mainstream public opinion in Ukraine did not want to be hostile to Russia. Who would have thought that more than ten years later, they would fight each other. There is also a group of bigwigs who fan the flames and hand knives behind them. In this regard, the Ukrainians are not stupid, they know very well that once they are pulled, they are fighting for freedom and the motherland, or for the oligarchs, or for the "foreign uncle" of NATO. Therefore, when they are pulled away, they often appear very resistant. Hotspot Engine Program