Well, you've likely been hearing and reading a lot that doesn't align with my perspective and research, so there's that. 😌
Ukraine recently lost most of their control of the strategic stronghold in Pokrovsk, blocking supply routes right now that always got reenforcements before. Just one of many signs of lacking new recruits.
They don't need new recruits as badly as they need arms for the soldiers they already have. What are they gonna do? Send new arrivals to the front with slingshots and have them shout "pang! pang!"?
Ukraine's conscription starts at 25, despite the USA throwing a fit about them not conscripting younger men, by the way. The citizenry refused to budge. That is what I mean. Ukrainians do have some say in government. It is _not_ Russia.
Ukrainian recruiters have been and are still being chased out of remote villages by people armed with axes, pitchforks and hunting rifles because they don't want to see their men slaughtered. Once you leave the westernized urban areas you won't find much support for this war, at least not anymore. I mentioned young people because they have been most heavily indoctrinated into the ultra-nationalist Banderite ideology for more than a decade by now so I pity them as much as young Arabs blowing themselves up because they both were deceived at an impressionable age.
