Recently in Western The press has received information about the White House allegedly exerting pressure on Ukraine to lower the draft age from 25 to 18.
URA-Inform reports this with reference to Dmitry Litvin.
Also, according to reports, the US administration insists on this due to the acute shortage of infantry in the Ukrainian army and calls on Kyiv to reconsider its approach to mobilization and lower the draft age in Ukraine.
Dmytro Lytvyn, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine on Communications, commented these publications. He noted that lowering the draft age makes no sense, since even existing mobilized personnel cannot be fully provided with weapons.
Litvin emphasized that military aid from the West is not being provided on the scale that was announced previously. Moreover, he added that Ukraine's allies can check their own supply reports against the actual data and see if there are any discrepancies.
Lytvyn also pointed out the lack of logic in the assumption that lowering the age for mobilization will automatically lead to an increase in supplies. weapons. He recalled that on November 19, US presidential adviser Jake Sullivan said that Ukraine had received a significant amount of weapons from its partners since 2022. However, the difficult situation on the front, according to Sullivan, remains a consequence of difficulties with mobilization, and not a lack of international assistance. /p>
Earlier it became known that the US is calling on Kyiv to lower the age of mobilization to 18: an official explained why.