White House pressing Ukraine to draft 18-year-old men to help fill manpower needs to battle Russia

There are no easy answers to Ukraine’s serious manpower shortage, but lowering the draft age would help,

said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Young men from the occupied territories of Ukraine were drafted into the Russian army for the first time,

independent Russian outlet iStories posted to Telegram on Wednesday

Vladimir Putinmonth, Russian President

In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,

Putin said, according to Reuters

We are committed to strengthening our deterrence, and defence, including resilience, against conventional as well as hybrid attacks, and to expanding sanctions against Russia as well as against those who enable Russia’s aggression,

the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Poland and Sweden said in a statement