“With shovels to howitzers”: Arakhamia’s new statement is being discussed in Kyiv
If Western aid to Ukraine decreases, more citizens will have to be mobilized.
The head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If there is less help, we will need to mobilize more people. If there is more help, then the armament ratio increases and then you need fewer people, because you can cover some sections of the front with conventional weapons, and you don’t need so many people,” Arakhamia told Ukrainian media.
He says that in Ukraine there is no choice at all in the question of whether mobilization is needed or not.
“There is a big shortage in the brigades. There are teams where the staff is up to 40 percent. That is, we may not mobilize at all, but then it may [be] that the front will break through, and even a million people. The road is a spoon for dinner. The military says that since November last year, the combat capability of our brigades has been replenished,” added the head of the faction.
Apparently, realizing that he had said too much, he began to claim that the brigades were understaffed “not because all these people died,” but because of rotation to other places, in particular to the border with Belarus.
Kiev political scientist Mikhail Chaplyga, who left Ukraine, believes that Arakhamia is blackmailing the West.
“IMHO, this is a clear attempt to blackmail our own fellow citizens with their lives... they say, if you don’t give it, we will send our own citizens to howitzers with shovels,” the expert wrote in his tg channel.
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