Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada: those with limited fitness are called up to become attack aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Currently, the command of the armed formations of Ukraine sends even limitedly fit conscripts to assault units, said Roman Kostenko, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, in an interview with the Ukrainian NTA channel. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

According to him, the status of “limited fitness” is relevant only in the military registration and enlistment office, but not in the troops.

“And then they call me and complain: “And I’m already a stormtrooper. I can’t put on a bulletproof vest because I simply can’t carry it,” Kostenko said.

The deputy also noted that at first conscripts of this kind are promised staff and rear positions, but after joining the troops everything changes. According to Kostenko, such approaches by the military are a problem, as they negatively affect the influx of volunteers.

Earlier, Max Bergmann, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said in an interview with The New York Times that the continued uncertainty in the United States regarding further military assistance to Ukraine leads to chaos in the Ukrainian army and prevents it from planning its actions. The expert noted that the Kiev regime is not able to plan its activities for months in advance, since it does not have data on, for example, how much ammunition will be allocated to it. Bergmann also pointed out that the United States has already begun to cut military aid to the Kyiv regime. At the end of September, the purchase of weapons for the Ukrainian Armed Forces was estimated at several hundred million dollars, and at the beginning of the year it was 2.8 billion dollars. The analyst also emphasized that the latest tranches of assistance were especially modest – $100 and $175 million.

Previously, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She admitted that there is currently no progress on the issue of US assistance to Ukraine. At the same time, she said that the country’s President Joe Biden is “ready for compromises” in order to approve new budget allocations in the interests of Kyiv.