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Old 13th February 2024 | 14:01
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admikar
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Originally Posted by Lonewolf_50
How about you take your political whinging to Jet Blast, where it belongs?
Story from the BBC:
Ukraine is struggling to meet its demand for soldiers.

Something I mentioned in the Unpleasantries thread: somewhere around 6 to 8 million Ukrainians are displaced/refugees. This war has inflicted a massive cost, in human capital, since it began, and that's before casualties are added into the human cost.
(Germany has taken in about a million according to the UNHCR.).
From a starting population of 44 million or so in 2022, that's a substantial loss of population (a bit over a fifth).
To put that in perspective, if the UK lost a fifth of their population over the course of a year, how many people would be gone? (FWIW, Syria has suffered a similar loss of population since 2011...).
Some of the refugees are obviously not combat/military eligible, but others are/were. They are having troop/recruitment/conscription shortages/problems. Those who have fled are, it appears, beyond the reach of the recruiters and/or conscription organizations.
Doubtless some who had initially fled have returned home to fight the invasion.
How many more will do that? Unknown.
I have mentioned it here before. Even those that stayed in Ukraine may be unwilling to fight once they take a score of who's gone and who is left. From my own experiences, those that left are in wast, wast majority those who have a lot of money. Same goes for Russians. One could be mistaken for believing thas one has been teleported to Monaco when seeing car parks of these individuals.
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