There is talk of a need of 450,000 to 500,000. This poses a major problem for the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. “The question of mobilization is a very sensitive one,” Zelensky said in Kiev on Tuesday.
In addition to the costs of the equivalent of 12.2 billion euros, there is also a motivation problem. Thousands of men try to avoid military service by fleeing abroad. The controls at the borders are strict. Men are repeatedly picked up at the green border. There are also known cases in which conscripts at muster offices use bribes to buy their way out of service.
