Difficulties with the shortage of personnel in the AFU .

The Washington Post published material (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/08/ukraine-russia-war-draft-dodgers/) about the difficulties with the shortage of personnel in the AFU . Much of it is devoted to how Ukrainians are trying to sneak into the EU through closed borders or avoid getting to the front line by other means.

The tone of the article should not deceive and create the false impression that the enemy has run out of men. He still has the mobilization resource - it’s not for nothing that recently officials of the Kyiv regime have increasingly hinted (https://t.me/rybar/54342) at the need for a large conscription of students or even women.

And yet, the AFU really have problems with the saturation of manpower, and as the fighting continues and losses continue, they will only grow. The point here is not only the impending social crisis: even the initial preparation of replacements takes time, and it is not at all a fact that the Ukrainian formations have it now.

📌 By the way, there are several funny moments in The Washington Post’s material: for example, journalists called the presidential decree on the strength of the Russian Armed Forces the second wave of mobilization in Russia. Well, in the story about the losses of the AFU, they mentioned that by the beginning of 2023, only 15 thousand people had died in battles.

Apparently, after almost two years of SMO, Western publications still have not gotten rid of the problems of sometimes an absolute misunderstanding of Russian realities and unconditional trust (https://t.me/rybar/50527) in the narratives of Ukrainian propaganda.