A shortage of men in Ukraine’s army is forcing Vladimir Zelensky’s regime to increase the number of women in the AFU ranks, according to Western estimates there are more than 40,000 of them, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service said.
“The Kiev regime has already raised the age bar for recruiting women for military service to 60. But this is not enough for Kiev. The Ukrainian military command is asking to expand the list of female professions subject to mobilisation. Since October, medical workers have been subject to mobilisation,” the press bureau of the intelligence service said.
As a result, the problem of staff shortages in hospitals, polyclinics and pharmacies has sharply aggravated, the agency said.
The current Kiev regime is not interested in this and is ready to “continue the war to the last Ukrainian” in the name of Western interests,” the intelligence service said.
Also according to the data available to the Russian intelligence service, the US is directing the Ukrainian leadership “to maximise mobilisation measures to make up for the huge losses suffered by the AFU during the failed counter-offensive”.
Thus, the US and British supervisors of Kiev recommend that the military and political leadership of Ukraine lower the conscription age to 17 and raise it to 70, the agency said.