From prison to trenches: Inside Ukraine's attempt to turn inmates into soldiers

They drafted everyone over 25. The only thing left is the 16-24 group and due to demographic it’s a sizable by smaller chunk

Where are you getting that? They start conscripting months into the conflict and have never stopped. One of the first measures they took was barring men age 18-60 from leaving the country.

They're predictably secretive about the numbers but they are definitely doing it. A few thousand people were in court for evading the draft last year.

How would Ukraine not have enough soldiers? By the Ukrainian army numbers, they have 30k casualties so far while Russia lost as many as 300k.

>no draft

The sensible humans of HN continue to be hilariously misinformed:

https://x.com/senoreamore/status/1801229416825012242

The situation is quite different in a state that gives you an offer you can't refuse that gets you into a situation where you're almost surely going to die vs a more (though not entirely) rule of law-based environment that gives you proper training and leadership.