Wide-scale desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers are among a raft of challenges facing Ukraine’s military as Russia presses on with its invasion of its neighbour after almost four years of fighting, the new defence minister said Wednesday.
Mykhailo Fedorov told Ukraine’s parliament that other problems facing Ukraine’s armed forces include excessive bureaucracy, a Soviet-style approach to management, and disruptions in the supply of equipment to troops along the about 1,000-kilometre front line.
We cannot fight a war with new technologies but an old organisational structure, Fedorov said.
He said the military had faced some 200,000 troop desertions and draft-dodging by around 2 million people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed 34-year-old Fedorov at the start of the year. The former head of Ukraine’s digital transformation policies is credited with spearheading the the army’s drone technology and introducing several successful e-government platforms.
His appointment was part​Wide-scale desertions and 2 million draft-dodgers are among a raft of challenges facing Ukraine’s military as Russia presses on with its invasion of its neighbour after almost four years of fighting, the new defence minister said Wednesday.
Mykhailo Fedorov told Ukraine’s parliament that other problems facing Ukraine’s armed forces include excessive bureaucracy, a Soviet-style approach to management, and disruptions in the supply of equipment to troops along the about 1,000-kilometre front line.
We cannot fight a war with new technologies but an old organisational structure, Fedorov said.
He said the military had faced some 200,000 troop desertions and draft-dodging by around 2 million people.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed 34-year-old Fedorov at the start of the year. The former head of Ukraine’s digital transformation policies is credited with spearheading the the army’s drone technology and introducing several successful e-government platforms.
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