Zelensky rules out lowering draft age

The West must provide more missiles instead of telling Kiev to mobilize more troops, the Ukrainian leader has said

By RT International

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has rejected the idea of lowering the military mobilization age in his country, dismissing calls from the West to do so.

Earlier this year, Ukraine lowered the mandatory conscription age from 27 to 25. Some former Western officials have urged Kiev to drop it further to 18, and the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden has reportedly pushed for this behind closed doors.

USSecretary of State Antony Blinken previously suggested that Kiev has some “hard decisions” to make in terms of mobilization. “Getting younger people into the fight, we think, many of us think, is necessary,” the top US diplomat said in an interview last week.

Zelensky has taken issue with the commentsm however. “The priority should be providing missiles and lowering Russia’s military potential, not Ukraine’s draft age,” he said, in a post on X on Tuesday morning.

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