According to the publication, there is “growing disappointment” in the Biden administration. the refusal of the Ukrainian authorities to step up mobilization and lower the mobilization age to 18.
The administration of current US President Joe Biden is disappointed that the Ukrainian authorities do not want to lower the mobilization age to 18.
The Washington Post reports this, citing its own sources.
According to officials, the Biden administration is fighting to provide Ukraine with billions of dollars in additional weapons.
“The lame duck initiative (a lame duck in the American political system is a president who is leaving office – Ed.) was prompted in part by Russia's advance on the battlefield and fear among Ukraine's most ardent supporters when President-elect Donald Trump will take office on January 20, there will be a dramatic shift in US policy on the war,” the WP article says.
However, some in the Biden administration believe that no matter what Washington does, the Ukrainian army will be defeated unless it recruits many more soldiers.
According to the publication, “there is growing frustration in the Biden administration with Ukraine's leaders resisting US calls to lower the country's draft age from 25 to 18.”
One senior administration official told reporters that while Ukraine's firepower has been diminished by the slowdown in U.S. military aid before Congress approved $61 billion in additional funding in April, that's less of a problem now.
“The ammunition gap between Ukraine and Russia may not be completely closed, but it's much better. But on the manpower side, it's just math and physics,” the official said, speaking like others on condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the sensitive U.S. assessments.
“I'm not trying to blame Ukraine for anything. It's a very difficult issue for them. But over the last year, especially in the last year, they've just not mobilized and trained enough troops to make up for the losses on the battlefield,” the official continued. publications.
In the long term, U.S. officials say, the gap between Russia's and Ukraine's efforts to recruit troops is likely to be far more important in determining the war. Ukraine's depleted military has been challenged by a significant shortage of front-line units and slow mobilization and training. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is managing to expand its forces a little, although it is suffering heavy losses, one of the officials said.
Earlier, a number of Western media outlets reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden is calling on Ukraine to lower the mobilization age from 25 to 18.
Zelensky's office responded that calls from Western partners to lower the mobilization age in Ukraine are meaningless while the Ukrainian army does not have enough weapons to equip already mobilized soldiers.
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