Since the law on mobilization came into force in Ukraine on May 18, the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been significantly replenished with new recruits, but they continue their training and combat preparation.
Therefore, the large-scale conscription has not yet had a significant impact on the front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about this in an interview with the French Le Monde.
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Mobilization in Ukraine — Zelensky's position
— The military command says that the pace of mobilization has increased. There are not enough people on the battlefield, since the recruits are still learning. We are not Russians.
In Russia, some soldiers only received seven days of training before being sent to the front. Our guys must be in training for at least two months, — the head of state explained.
He stressed that the population of the Russian Federation is incomparable with that of Ukraine, and this is a serious challenge for us.
Zelensky said that the occupiers are suffering colossal losses due to their careless attitude towards their personnel.
According to him, over the past few weeks, the Russians have suffered losses of thousands of people a day — killed and wounded.
— They are crazy. Putin has gone crazy. How can you kill a thousand people every day? In the year of the war, he will sacrifice 300 thousand of his own citizens. More than 500,000 of his soldiers have already been killed or wounded, the president concluded.
