‘Key to Survival’: Ukrainian Army Battles to Change Amid Manpower Shortages

George Mihalcea

Deep in a Ukrainian forest at one of the country’s largest military training grounds, the rumble and blasts of weapons mixed with the screams of young -- and not so-young -- new soldiers. Drafted to fight against Russia, the conscripts were being put through bootcamp before deployment to the front. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . “You need to have motivation”, an instructor, who goes by the call sign Alex told AFP, given rare access to the site by