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Before the February 2022 attack, there were 8.7 million men of conscription age in Ukraine; by February 2024 there were about 5 million. Ukraine’s army needs up to 400,000 more soldiers to fight off the Russians, who have a mobilization capacity at least four times as great given the difference in population size.
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Ukraine need around 10% of fighting age men to join up, it appears they don’t want to.
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, newly trained troops are reaching the front line far too slowly. As a recent frontline report from the Kyiv Independent stated: “Experts and soldiers alike identify manpower as the core problem at the heart of Ukraine’s military at this stage of the war: overstretched and undermanned units, with infantry often fighting for so long without rotation that their combat effectiveness begins to drop.”
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It’s not F16s they need.
It would seem that they quite simply do not have the manpower to push Russia back.
https://cepa.org/article/ukraines-wa...iption-crisis/