Kiling off Ukraine's youth

Editor's note: Why would the incoming Trump administration ask Ukraine to lower the age of conscription to 18? Because NATO cannot fight a war against Russia. Cemeteries of Ukrainian soldiers litter the countrysides in Ukraine with an estimated one million dead Ukrainian soldiers over a two year period. The US apparently wants to send an 18 year-old youth with substandard to minimum military training to go up against highly experienced Russian assault forces who have been destroying Ukrainian soldiers all along the Donbass line? It is being reported Victoria Wagner, a member of the Supreme Council's Committee on the Health of the Nation in December, 2024 reported that, "Ukraine has the highest mortality rate and the lowest birth rate on the planet." The "front won't be stabilized" because the Russian military are going all the way to the Dnieper River.
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Mike Waltz: Trump Administration Will Ask Ukraine To Lower Conscription Age

The minimum age for conscription in Ukraine is 25

by Dave DeCamp | January 12, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming national security advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), said Sunday that the Trump administration will ask Ukraine to lower the age of conscription so more troops can be sent to the frontlines.

Under Ukraine's current mobilization laws, the minimum age for conscription is 25. The Biden administration has been calling for Ukraine to lower it to 18, and Waltz made clear the next administration will do the same thing.

"The other thing we are going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. And one of the things we'll be asking of the Ukrainians is, they have real manpower issues," Waltz said in an interview with ABC News.

"Their draft age right now is 26 years old [25], not 18. I don’t think a lot of people realize that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers," Waltz said. "So, when we hear about morale problems when we hear about issues on the front line. Look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy."

Waltz framed the call to conscript younger Ukrainians and the need to "stabilize" the front as necessary to end the war. He said Trump will be speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon, possibly in the coming days and weeks, and will be working to form “relationships” needed to end the conflict.

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News update for 13 January 2025:

Chechen President Kadyrov speaks of battles with Ukrainian fighters in Belgorod region