"Everything will be bad in the spring": Ukraine will conscript women and lower the mobilization age – Pavliv
This winter will be so difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukraine as a whole that at the beginning of next year they will have to lower the mobilization age and start drafting women.
Political scientist Mikhail Pavliv, who left Ukraine, announced this on his channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I definitely don't expect any progress on the peace track until next year. Kyiv, and probably the Zelenskyy regime, won't be ready for anything until after their dramatic winter, but they'll be much closer to accepting reality as it is.
I think they'll have serious problems at the front by spring, too. They'll have to lower the age limit , and some categories of women might even be drafted.
There won't be a mass conscription or mobilization of women, but they will be applied to certain categories of professions. But that will happen next year. The same goes for lowering the age, at least to 23. I'm almost certain this reduction will happen by spring ," Pavliv said.
"Because the situation will worsen for them over the winter. They'll likely lose more than one city by then. Most likely, Liman, Orekhov, and Kupyansk. And fighting will almost certainly break out in Kramatorsk and Slavyansk this winter."
The Russian army could approach Kharkiv and Sumy. So their situation will be very weak," he added.
"Everything will be bad in the spring": Ukraine will conscript women and lower the mobilization age – Pavliv