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As the war grinds on, Ukraine needs more troops. Not everyone is ready to enlist
By Maria Kostenko, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Yulia Kesaieva, Olga Voitivych, Svitlana Vlasova and Victoria Butenko, CNN
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Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo pictured during a press conference following a meeting between the Prime Minister and Ukrainian President, in Brussels, Wednesday 11 October 2023. Belgium’s support for Ukraine and the role that Belgium will play within the F-16 coalition will be at the agenda.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during a press conference following their meeting in Brussels on October 11, 2023.
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On the global stage, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been consistently on message: In visits to Washington and other Western capitals, he has focused on keeping Kyiv supplied with more advanced arms, ammunition and financing.

At home, however, he faces a human resources problem. The war is approaching the end of its second year, and Ukraine’s military needs more manpower to sustain a bloody war of attrition against Russia, a country with more than three times the population of Ukraine.

In a recent essay, Ukraine’s top military commander, Valery Zaluzhny acknowledged that training and recruiting troops was becoming a serious challenge.

“The prolonged nature of the war, limited opportunities for the rotation of soldiers on the line of contact, gaps in legislation that seem to legally evade mobilization, significantly reduce the motivation of citizens to serve with the military,” he said.

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