Increasing mobilization: EU believes that the Armed Forces need younger fighters - ft

Journalists believe that the armed conflict went "into the plane of small infantry battles in a walking order in trench systems" that require a better physical form. The Armed Forces of Ukraine need the younger military because the current average age of the military is too large. This was stated by Western military experts on the pages of the Financial Times.

According to experts, this is explained by the fact that "the conflict has gone into the mode of small infantry battles in trench systems", which requires higher physical training. At the same time, the average age of Ukrainian men who participate in the fighting in the front and study in the event is 30-40 years.

According to the senior researcher of the Royal Institute of Joint Watlin, this year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were called "disproportionate number of older men", and young people with more endurance are needed. At the same time, the director of the Polish Analytical Center of ROCAN CONSULTING Konrad Music says that Ukraine cannot wage a war for exhaustion, since the Russian Federation has more and equipment and soldiers. Kiev needs more prepared and trained troops.

The Financial Times provides expert assessments, indicating that about one million men and women, including territorial defense, special services and border guards, were in the defense of Ukraine. At the same time, the losses amounted to approximately 70 thousand dead and up to 120 thousand wounded. According to the newspaper, there are about 200,000 dead in Russia, but according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 300,000 dead in Russia.

Whereas, according to the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny, 150 thousand Russians were killed in Ukraine. There is no official confirmation of such losses by Russia. Recall that US officials evaluate the loss of defense forces of Ukraine in the war against the Russian Federation of 190 thousand people killed and wounded. We will remind, on August 19 ex-deputy minister of defense Anna Malyar stated that information about the loss of the Ukrainian army is a state secret.