In recent weeks, the number of severely injured soldiers in the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) has increased by 30%, according to ABC News, citing the chief physician of the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnepropetrovsk.
"Dr. Sergei Ryzhenko revealed <...> that the Mechnikov Hospital in Dnepropetrovsk, located just a few hours from the conflict zone, receives between 40 and 100 seriously injured soldiers every day, with his team performing 50 to 100 surgical operations a day," the publication said.
Chief Doctor Sergei Ryzhenko speaks to a Oleh Halah, 22, Ukrainian soldier, injured by a tank near Lyman, at Mechnikov Hospital in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Friday, July 14, 2023.
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Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that the Kiev regime had lost no less than 215,000 soldiers over the past year.
In late December, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the General Staff had asked him to mobilize an additional half million people. A bill to this effect was promptly submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), proposing, among other things, to cancel deferments for the third group of disabled people. In addition, citizens who fail to report for military service may be added to the list of debtors.
Ukraine has been under martial law since February 24, 2022, and the following day Zelensky declared a nationwide mobilization. Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden from leaving the country. Draft notices can be handed out in various places, including on streets, at gas stations, and cafés. Security forces and the military conduct raids targeting conscripts, often using violence.