"Youngs faster tired": WSJ learned how in the Armed Forces it is predicted by men for 40
Currently, in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one of the most common call sign is the "grandfather", which receives the oldest fighter of the unit. In particular, it has 46-year-old artilleryman Andriy Kuhar, who protects Ukraine near the time ravine. "I have a granddaughter, so I have the right right to the title of" Grandfather ". I am a commander. My team consists mainly of young guys. They are my colleagues, my comrades are one team," the cook explained.
He believes that older generations should protect young people because they are the future of Ukraine. At the same time, the chef emphasized that all the military who have been fighting on the front for several years need a replacement. The senior sergeant of the intelligence unit Mykola Yarko, who was 59 years old this year, said in a conversation with journalists that his reaction was no longer the one that was before. "But I continue, I hold on.
I have a lot of experience, for many years of service. Young people can't do everything. They think differently. With age you start to look at things easier. Psychologically we are more stable. Young people are more tired more morally. They simply do not yet have enough life experience," The Fighter of the Armed Forces noted that his son is 29 years old and he works as a tank mechanic in Zhytomyr, and his daughter is studying in the fourth grade.
"I have no grandchildren yet!" - said Yarko, who also received a call sign "Grandfather". "I'm old, I have health problems, and I am physically difficult to do my job. I could leave the army for health. You're a good driver. You can evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. " He added that he recently had grandchildren - Victoria's girl and a boy Valentine, who was named after his grandfather. The military emphasized that he had never seen his grandson.
"The infantry service is the hardest work in the long hours, which often have to do in the trenches. And often soldiers are really grandparents," Ruzhitsky said. 52-year-old infantry Mikhail Mendeluk said that he has two grandchildren-a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. "They know that their grandfather is fighting. Especially my grandson is a little fighter. He is wearing camouflage all the time," he shared.
Mendeluk believes that young people should be warning first, because at a later age it is difficult to carry out combat missions: "War is not for the elderly. Young people should fight, because I can no longer. I suffocate, I cannot run, I do not cope. And my memory . . . I constantly forget everything, probably. " Another military, 53-year-old Nicholas Risxres, who has five grandchildren, shared that many of them now live abroad.
He told reporters that he had thrown a job in Poland and enrolled in a volunteer in February 2022. "The younger generation of Ukrainians should focus on building their lives and preparing for the restoration of the country after the war," Risen said. The authors of the material emphasized that the quantitative distribution of the call sign "grandfather" indicates a considerable problem that Ukraine faces - it needs all the fighters she can collect.