Behind Ukraine's effort to replenish its depleted ranks | DW News 

Damm that’s deep.

Too bad Putin doesn't care about his people.

So TRUE

That's history. When the history of the war in Ukraine is recorded that is exactly what it will tell!

“My kids party in Europe.” -Ukrainian officials

Zelensky lost 310,000 personnel

@@raymondyu412 its close to million for both sides ...

There are wounded soldiers too

Because he is a war criminal.

​@@Kirstinevad two?

Does this mean there will be a surplus of single Ukrainian women?

​@@seanmurphy2365win in your book kinda situation 😂 you're like friend that who can not keep quite in 2 minute silence or smth 😂

exactly the same as Russian.Who from alcoholism, who from drugs, who from Ukrainian bullets, but Russian disappearing quite quickly.

Misleading comment

@Omar-lq3ri omg it’s sigma batrick pateman he’s so sigma and cool

Not just Boris Johnson but his entire family as well as those of the US Congress men who voted for this aid package, knowing that it changes nothing but causes more death and destruction to both sides. For God's sake, it is humans dying, not robots. SHAME ON THESE POLITICIANS!!

Didn't Johnson volunteer He must be getting ready🤣

Exactly

Who is "we"?

@231rosslyn oooooo dude that’s pretty mysterious ur a pretty mysterious edgy guy

Well...Ukraine didn't take Russia seriously. they warned them not to be part of NATO or the European union. They also killed a lot of ethnic Russians in ukriane. Russia had to invade.

In which army you can just resign during the war?

Russia treats its military much worse. Very sad for the men and women that don’t want to be caught in this conflict on either side though.

You are likely talking about russian army.

​@@4layers404lol, the Russian army is getting 30,000 volunteers a month and the pay is 4 times what they can earn at a civilian job. Ukraine? Not so much.

@@gumby2241 Both nations aren’t comparable. Russia has a large pool of civilians which increases the potential of volunteers while being mostly safe inside their country. Ukraine on the other hand has to fear for survival with no guarantee of success nor survival. If Russia loses they get to retreat back to their homes at 0 risk. Ukraine doesn’t have that luxury. Regarding the pay by the army I don’t have the numbers. There has been a lot of media stunts and held back payments by russia though. Some widows haven’t received anything from the Russian government yet.

And who killed them? Your buddies

​@@bigolboomerbelly4348being a tool doesn't make you a patriot.

For the next generation of children, so that they won't have to live in bomb shelters. For their mother who is still alive thanks to the defence forces.

for biden

If you have to ask then you something is missing.

You of cource mean the referendom before soldiers arrived and deported ukranians and moved russians in

That’s not how human work

They were asked in 1991 and they voted for independent Ukraine.

@@alexp7579 so they have no rights to vote anymore? And do you think that the east of ukraine votes the same than the west? The datas from the latest elections are there on wikipedia for anybody to read

@@gremlin633 The Eastern regions voted overwhelmingly for Ukrainian independence in 1991. If there was going to be a new one then obviously it must be held in Ukraine. Russia doesn't even allow one referendum to it's regions like Chechnya

Well it's not like they have the money, after all, zelensky is constantly begging for alms to fund his delusion of victory when everyone knows that's impossible now.

€350,000

Zelensky is watching.

Yes, Putin has been caught doing this will tens of thousands of his Russian troops.

Russia is doing it and Z bots are doing the normal procedure of flipping the truth upside down.

You can keep it.

It means that they are going on the offensive... Common sense evaluation

@@rogerrantz2024 bruh, if theyre planning for an offensive, then clearly 80-90% of those new draftees will be kannonfodrs 😂, no training, just send directly to the frontlines lol!

​@@nuke_Godjira and what are YOU doing? Where are you? Are you quite comfortable?

@@Yahyia-cv3sx Im not Russian or Ukrainian, but if ever I'm either one, I will never gonna die for some corrupt politicians war lol,

@@nuke_Godjira :) why are you sounding like you know absolutely nothing about nothing. casual Ivantard?

Some are, this one isn't.

You are confusing country for a state. Nevertheless, you are entitled to your position.

@@231rosslyn Nice try, but in this context 'country' and 'state' are interchangeable. If you're trying to be the grammar police you also failed at that since you didn't capitalize 'State.' 😂

One doesn't fight for a state they fight for their community and for ideals. It's the same reason Ukrainians stood in Maidan Square to get rid of putin puppet Yanukovich. And now putin wants to try again.

Exactly I don't understand why people fight and die. They don't give any land or contracts to the men that actually did the fighting.

Russia does not care how many sons you have, only for the goals of Russia.

It's not the mother who sacrificed the sons, it's putler.

It is both sad and unfortunate when a woman loses three sons. These atrocities are what happens in war. But when people invade your home, what do you do? Do you put up with unlimited rape, pillaging, kidnapping of children, torture, and murder or do you fight back? You can not possibly win if you surrender to terrorists, so, for now, Ukraine fights on. What other reasonable option has Ukraine? 😢

​@@231rosslynis that what you have to say? How can a govt draft all three sons in war, that's not right. This has left her childless.

​@@user-lw7ij1vf4b Lol !😂 Russia didn't do any of that when it took Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Putin just wants administrative control, that's it. He wanted the same in 2022 but the clown Zelensky put up the fight it can never win. Ukraine was never supposed to fight back but surrender. Now they are facing the consequences.

there is no such thing as "illegal" out there

Shame on you, Russian Federation

So you don't realise that most Ukrainians just sign up to do the job?

Who says Putler wants a dialogue? He just wants to take more of Ukraine !!!! You are just not smart enough to understand that.

I agree

​@@JAMMAJ-cq2blif Ukraine Surrender War will end, and Ukrainians can live peacefully and happy just like the crimeans,

@@JAMMAJ-cq2blfact remains you shouldn’t be forced to go serve in the front for a cause and goverment you don’t support. Basic human rights.

Jammmaj,come down to reality 👊🇷🇺

When you say battle hardened soldiers, you actually mean drunk old men that have been conscripted? Pretty much all of Russia's elite units are so diluted by conscripts due to losses you cant even consider them as elite units now. Even at the start of the war Russia proved how incompetent their military is.

calling a drunk alcoolic with 2 day training bullet proff vest made out of cardboard a hardened soldier is a bit much.🤣

User so who is crying and you are watching?

@@michaelasamoah2390 That doesn't even make any sense. User pointed out a pretty valid point. We have all seen the quality of Russia's battle hardened drunks. 🤣

@@user-ed2zl3eq8q joined march 2024 poor coping nato bot 🤭

I’m so sorry for your losses.

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. what is horrible And we all should do everything we can to avoid them. But that doesn't mean we let evil people have their way. We need to make sure every aggressor loses any war they start so that people will think twice about before leaders start a war.

But Vietnam did not invade the USA to make it part of Vietnam . Different reason for fighting .

Some of them are actually Russians (pretending to be Ukranians). We just don't hear about them fleeing because, you know, Russia lacks press freedom. Nevertheless, we should welcome all of them, whether they are Russians or Ukrainians. After all, they are all human beings who do not want to die.

In Germany more than 200.000... So why does Zelensky forbid peace negotiations by Presidential decree?! 🤔

@@eddastrohmayer251 Hay-hi;is it trve that vpon arrival in Mvnich airport,people possessing not signed passports are execvted by firing sqvad on the rvnway?

@@eddastrohmayer251he also forbid presidential elections

@@jeffsharp8228 what nonsense are you talking about ???

War last already? It's who survived that win the war it's not a Hollywood movie 😢

That’s untrue. This bill funds a nations self defense against an aggressor. Don’t blame to victim for trying it’s best to defend itself.

​​@@4layers404 Ukraine should go to the negotiation table. They have a lack of soldiers, young men prefer to leave the country, more than 200.000 alone in Germany. So what?

​​@@Razzotis2211 People will win their lives when politicians go to the negotiation table. Zelensky should lift his Presidential decree which forbids negotiations !

@@4layers404 Ukraine wouldn't do anything without permission or an order from the US, and that's what got them invaded in the first place. Trump had it stopped.

Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. Lincoln.

But you remember them, yes? At all funerals I always comment to the grieving, "they are only dead, when they are forgotten." NEVER forget. Tyrants be damned!

Stop watching DW and come back to reality.

True but then again if they lose and end up being under Russia they won't be conscripted to defend their country, they will be conscripted to invade other people's countries while also not being able to criticize the government under threat of a beatdown, arrest, etc. and since Ukraine didn't want any war and were invaded by a larger and more militaristic country it is pretty clear that people have to defend their country unless they want to give in to the aggressor which like I mention will conscript them to invade other people's countries and homes.

No

@@mateabonyi299 Wow, he said no! End of debate guys! He won! He said no!

Fighting to not become part of Russia is not slavery .

Welcome to history 🫡

Yeah money for the oligarchs. Their still is no Ukraine Blackrock fund that people can invest in.

Vote Trump if you want to stop the war.

Your government seems to be feeding you lies, my russian friend. Putins Russia doesnt abide by peacedeals. They use a few years to rearm and then continue the war. Putin accepted Ukraines borders as it was founded. Now he wants to eradicate it. He calls them na*ist and satanists. He has tried to kill Zelensky multible times. Ukranians are being deported from Ukranian territories to remote areas of Russia and russians are given the land.

​@@stekon9112 Probably pretty hard to do from Russia, then again mayby not. They alredy managed to get Trump elected once, by election interference. I remember getting suggested a video on Hillary running a place of "ladies of the night" making money on activities. This was a day or two before the 2016 election. Probably just because I subscribe on youtube to a few americans living in my country.

this money flow will not end until Ukraine wins.

@@stekon9112 Trump will give Ukraine to his best friend putin. Nothing to be proud of.

Ukraine made their decision and so did Russia. So why do you blame them ?

@@cuongdo9958 Ukraine made its decision to DEFEND itself against an aggressor or cease to exist. Go take you BS elsewhere Igor!

Foolish for Ukraine to failed on its counter attack when it had the advantage and the momentum.

You should know the consequences before hitting an adult brown bear.

@@cuongdo9958 russia decided to illegally invade Ukraine, or what bussiness does russia have in Ukraine? except to steal land from Ukraine.. Ukraine made the decision of defend their land or whatb do you think they are doing? so your question of why do you blame them makes no sense, and at least feel compassion for this mother.

not just talk, EU pushes Ukraine to fight for last Ukrainian

Now you are acknowledging it is a proxy war.

While this conflict is very close to the EUs heart it isn’t the EUs war. At least as of now. Russia started the war by attacking Ukraine. War party wise there are only two sides involved. Those being Russia and Ukraine.

​@@georgekung2003utubeEU is not pushing Ukraine to fight.There were proposition to peace talks and trying to end war,but Ukraine dont want to save its people and end war,even if it would cost losing some territories

not pushing just US$27.3 bln aid to ukraine including weapons. Ukraine can not fight for last Ukrainian without those aid

Putin can retreat at any point

Such call is senseless, if doesn't come with a plan how to do it.

Talk to putin

B need to drag through Nov election

Why not gather information on why putin started this war.

So far a nightmare for Russia.

@@gordonedwards6877 how you figure? russian women are not in danger of getting ravished by ukrainean soldiers...lol

They didn't say those 3 sons were sent to the military. Very possible they volunteered.

Azerbaijan government is less corrupted

Agreed. I want to stop the war, I am a vet. I just know what exactly that takes, so I would never say something so simple. Since there is a war, we didn't do everything required to prevent it, so now we must do everything we can to stop it. Ukraine matters, this is Europe. We don't need another WW2, letting Russia win is another step in that direction.

Half-measures will just lead to Russia winning. It's ironic that people who want the war to continue don't want individual NATO members going boots on the ground fighting cuz muh laugjable escalation wbich is already a reality for Ukraine. They want to eat their cake and have it too. A haulted war means letting Russia keep the donbass or wherever the lines are in exchange for saving what's left of the innocent draftee men from being sent to a drone/artillery meat grinder. Hundred of thousands of forced men for just a few kilometers of sparse land, killed in the most brutally sadistic ways, often filmed by drones, for what? The geopolitical fantasies of people who just want to save face? Putin and a western warmongerer are no different in their sick game of plahing with the lives of forced men like toys on a board.

@@Perri_RedderYou are absolutely right. Couldn’t agree more.

To stop the war, all sides have to sit down at the negotiating table and find a compromise, I think that's obvious. But the president of Ukraine issued a decree prohibiting negotiations with Russia, and the West has not taken any diplomatic steps to stop the war for two years, the West only helps Ukraine to kill Russians who have done nothing bad to the West.

The only way to end this is to acknowledge that neither side gets exactlly what they want. And neither side will settle for anything less. So there is no end without victory because neither side values life greater then compromise. There is a war in ukraine because that is the only option they have left eachother to reach a solution. Russia just didn't invade ukraine because it's trying to take over the world. And ukraine didn't just pick a fight with Russia. Personally myself I would of secured a ukraine independent and neutral and brought prosperity to ukraine threw multi nation relations. There is allot of security provided to nations who lay down there weapons and militaries in the name of neutrality. And they actually thrive evan with russia on there border! Zelensky may not be wrong by saying putin can not be trusted but there is a reallity where neutral nations on Russian borders have lived and thrived peacefully. And there is a reallity to the notion that forign countries will send there own troops to defend the helpless..zelensky has chosen a path of strength threw violence and fear and so zelensky lives in the reallity of that path he has chose. I personally believe Crimea and dontesk are a price well payed for the independence of ukraine after all it's just dirt. I kind of leaned towards Russian support not because I support russia but because I understand there position and don't believe there advancment into ukraine is some grand plan to recapture the eastern bloc!

Russia has proven that can only be done on the battlefield. They have no respect for their neighbors sovereignty, and their word means nothing.

by yelling at YT?

Putin can withdrawal at anytime.

Talk to putler.

B need to drag through Nov election

Germany is not at war and that shall remain so. Stop your silly warmongering !

​@@eddastrohmayer251if war starts now her tone will change

​@@eddastrohmayer251NATO is at war , using Ukraine as a proxy 🎯🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣😁😁😁😁🤭🤭

Another Pooti versteher? Germany must ditch this thing forever.

@@user-vx5vo3gs2w People like you should "verstehen" that diplomacy is better than weapons, peace is better than war ! Most German people fortunately have understood that!

Then stop taking money.

And how is that any different then what the people of the Donbas republics did?

Rules based order , not international law lol which changes according to America's interest . Nothing to do with the law lol

​​@@musiconabudget3712 Absolutely right !

Of course you do Ivan. Unlike Russian's Ukrainians want to fight, they are defending their homes from the fascists in the Kremlin.

Bro, videos of uk,rainians fighting back to kyiv regime is flooding telegram channels, i saw video uk,rainians chanslng conscript offic,ers with an ax🪓 lol

Right and they don't won't the Russians knocking on their doors so I doubt it's unpopular

​@@Mr.Clownensky Must be on the russian internet my russian friend. Why dont you fight the russian propagande instead of spreading lies here?

Russia

Not Russia, thats for sure. Putin is mowing Ukranians from occupied territories, installing Russians and making claims on the land. Putin has multible times signed acceptance for Ukraines borders, but he keeps coming back for more.

Didn't they vote to separate from Ukraine

Ukraine

@@duncan8437 💕🍀🌞

The U.S. isn’t sending checks to Ukraine. Most of the aid bill will be send to Ukraine in form of old military equipment with the money being allocated towards the U.S. buying themselves new equipment to replace the aid.

They will send old trash weapons to Ukrainians, in credit...

where's "here"?

Central Banks were invented to print money to rob taxpayers. Most of the budget goes to entitlements, not military spending or even foreign aid. For every dollar printed, the private central bank owner gets 20 cents, and that's the 20 cents we all pay for via taxes or inflation, which is akin to a tax on savings. Socialism is making us all broke and enslaved. Ukraine is simply caught in the middle.

Really? How are they going to find peace?

​@@michaelwilson9921Putin has interfered with everybody's peace

They sacrifice their sons for US hegemonial ambitions! What you say is more than cynical!

​@@eddastrohmayer251it's Putin's war bruh, he's the one who rolled tanks, not the USA or Ukraine. Who's The real hegemon?

@@patrolmanpete US is clearly the hegemon when having more than 850 military bases all around the world, CIA bases here and there and stepping in and out in foreign countries militarily whenever they like. Think a little bit, please !

Why yes, Hunter Biden will serve on the board of Burisma and get paid millions of dollars without actually doing anything. That's what Ukraine is fighting for.

No

Cry 😂

@@A4Natty Many are, like the women in this story and millions of others.

@@namenameson9065 Yes, and what does that have to do with the FJB comment that is being responded to here?

@@meetmehalfway7982If you dont see how then you are blind or you ignore the truth because it doesnt fit into your fairy tale

@@meetmehalfway7982 I only replied because these women are crying. Duh. But since you ask, Trump had this war stopped. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden sits on the board of Burisma getting paid millions for not doing anything. This is Biden's war. This is Obama's war. This is the war of a failed political establishment reliant on China trying to distract us from their failed policies. Our political rulers are crooks pretending to be saviors. Ukraine loses every day this war goes on, and so do we. Trump stopped it.

You go and fight instead of wasting valuable time making comments here.

What started as a bad joke, US fill fight to the last Ukrainian, is now a great tragedy. Boris Johnson a few days ago said, if we lose in Ukraine, the hegemony of the west will be lost. This is why Ukrainian men are drafted to fight to the end, to preserve western hegemony.

That is such a ignorant take. How exactly is it not right to help a country that wants to defend itself from Russian imperialism? Ukraine would fight without US aid, your comment makes zero sense.

Interesting how many Swedes and Finnish died because of NATO expansion?

Is forced conscription a freedom? What would be the price for the current "help" - 200 -300K dead?

@@valerijoukov239 what solution would you suggest. Submit to a enemy nation? Have your nation turn to vassal state? Forced citizens to cultural change?

​@@valerijoukov239 mobilization is the only way to defend own country. This happened in WW2 and this is the biggest war since ww2. Clearly you are from ruZia

You mean the price of freedom of the minority Russian speaking population in Dumbas who were being slaughtered by thier own government in Ukraine or what ? Yes they should stay high and they will get thier freedom from Zelenskiy through Russia, as Albanian speaking population in Kosovo gain thier independence from Serbia through NATO. Amen.

@@ronaldlalisan5592 Russia has around 4 million of Ukrainians now along with 193 other nationalities...In Crimea - 65% Russians and 15% Ukrainians and Ukrainian is OFFICIAL language there!!! - what kind of cultural changes? Russians and Ukrainians are the same people. If the boarders of Ukraine will be open - all normal men would escape....Solution is only one - run for your life!!! - when the civil war is over - return home

Hahaha, someone from a country of barbaric Genocide and war crimes talking about shame and pity, first you fix your own country's God damn economy before make comment on other countries in Europe(seriously? in Europe!!), by the way did you verify the election date, because I don't think this is going to happen in next few years or at least in this year, I guess so...

Shame on Russia for attacking a sovereign nation they called their brother. Shame on Russia for starting a war that cost this many lives over nothing but some dictators ambition. Ukraine isn’t made to fight the war by Europe! Russia made them fight.

Ukrainians don't fight Europeans but US hegemonial ambitions war !

@@eddastrohmayer251 no. Ukrainian fights the imperialist Russia and Putins greedy ambitions. This war has nothing to do with Europe or the U.S.

Ivan, Russia started a proxy war for China against the democratic world, but got its butt kicked by Ukraine. Russian losers were defeated and fled from major Ukrainian cities (Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson) and now focus on small towns and villages. LOL

If they receive training, they become soldiers, just green ones. Russia is a different story.

@@Perri_Redder WW2 training was 2 weeks, wonder how it is

​@@Perri_Redderprofanation in most cases. They dont let civilians to have firearms, but demand to fight at this fu*kin' war

@@knightofwind2929 6 weeks, in most armies. Maybe not for the Soviets.

It will not be long for sure.

Biden?

@@michaelwilson9921 you are right

@@michaelwilson9921Putins greed.

@@4layers404 As no one else but Putin is greedy? In a world of greed at the top that demands those of us at the bottom to go into the trenches to die for their greed why don't we revolt? Yes, I know --- only Russian citizens should revolt! Not us of course although we too were thrown into the caldron of Iraq and Afghanistan. But this time is different since it's a proxy war where we are supplying the bullets and making money as Ukraine is supplying the bodies!

Article 157. The Constitution of Ukraine cannot be changed if the changes provide for the cancellation or restriction of the rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen or if they are aimed at the liquidation of independence or violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Your statement makes no sense.

Better to be unemployed than unalived.