[dabigv13]

Maybe this was mentioned previously but the reason Ukraine's draft age is so atypical is because their demographics were very affected by the collapse of the USSR such that the present young generation is much smaller than older generations.

This means that there are less young people to draft, but also that the more young people die in the war (particularly if before they have children) subsequent generations will be even smaller.

Of course you can only worry about future generations if they have a country to be born into, and political leadership has finally lowered the draft age to 25.

But this demographic problem for Ukraine is also at least partially why they have not tried drafting women, though volunteers are welcome in both combat and non combat roles. Young men dying would be a big future demographic problem, young women even worse.

[dabigv13]

Maybe this was mentioned previously but the reason Ukraine's draft age is so atypical is because their demographics were very affected by the collapse of the USSR such that the present young generation is much smaller than older generations.

This means that there are less young people to draft, but also that the more young people die in the war (particularly if before they have children) subsequent generations will be even smaller.

Of course you can only worry about future generations if they have a country to be born into, and political leadership has finally lowered the draft age to 25.

But this demographic problem for Ukraine is also at least partially why they have not tried drafting women, though volunteers are welcome in both combat and non combat roles. Young men dying would be a big future demographic problem, young women even worse.