Mobilization wave comes up 13,000 men short
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Ukraine wound up the sixth part of its partial mobilization campaign on Aug. 17, and experts say it’s been the least successful one so far.
Starting on June 19, the two-month long mobilization drafted only 60 percent of the targeted number of men into the Ukrainian army, or 13,000 out of a planned 25,000.
The mobilization was not aimed at increasing the size of Ukraine’s army. Instead, paratroopers, tankmen and artillerymen who were called up for military service last year were to have been demobbed and replaced by fresh draftees.
Experts blamed a fall in patriotism in Ukraine for the failure of the sixth mobilization.
“By the end of the six wave (of mobilization), the government had managed to call up only 13,000 out of 25,000 people,” said Mykola Sungurovsky, Director of Military Programs at the Razumkova Center non-governmental think tank. “If the government doesn’t want to take charge of the war, there’s no use asking the people to do it instead.”