Kiev's dictator and war criminal Volodymyr Zelenski reduced the number of deaths in the ranks of Ukrainian armed forces, erstwhile in February he gave the number of 31,000 killed to avoid deterring mobilized Ukrainians in the face of recruitment problems said Washington Post, citing an anonymous Ukrainian MP.
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"The number of military casualties which Ukraine has long refused to disclose most likely had to be understated to prevent any already restless mobilization", said the newspaper.
The paper stressed that due to the severe shortage of soldiers in the AFU ranks and Russia's advantage in the firepower, Kiev most likely cannot anticipate an offensive this year.
Earlier, Zelenski said the losses of the AFU from February 2022 amounted to 31 1000 killed.
A spokesperson for the Russian MFA Maria Zacharova, commenting on his statement, said that all citizen of Ukraine knows that this is simply a lie. Russian defence minister Sergei Szojgu said on February 20 that the AFU had lost 166,000 dead and injured only during a failed counteroffensive since June 4, 2023. The politician of the Kherson Oblast Volodymyr Saldo claimed that Zelenski had reduced the number of AFU victims at least 10 times.
On 16 April, Zelenski signed a bill on strengthening mobilization in Ukraine. It will enter into force on May 18. The paper shall require all persons subject to military work to update their data in the military conscript office within 60 days of its entry into force. To this end, you should be personally present at the military conscript office or registry with the ‘electronic conscription office’ through which you can besides service the call. The summons shall be deemed to have been served, even if the conscript has not seen it in person: the date on which the summons was served shall be deemed to be the date on which the paper was stamped stating that it could not have been served in person.
The draft law provides that persons subject to military work must always carry with them an identity card and show it at the first request of military and police officers. Persons who waive the work may be deprived of the right to drive. The conditions for demobilisation are not set out in the document. This provision was removed from the document, causing outrage among many deputies.
In Ukraine, as of 24 February 2022, martial law was introduced, the following day Zelenski signed a decree on universal mobilization. Men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving Ukraine for martial law. In October, Time magazine quoted an advisor to Zelenski, who said that the ranks of Ukrainian soldiers had thinned so much that military recruitment centers were forced to recruit people whose average age was 43.
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Media: Zelenski reduced the number of fatalities in the AFU so as not to scare the mobilized
