"Young people are better versed in technology": Zelensky explains lowering of conscription age in Ukraine
Kyiv • UNN
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that lowering the conscription age for the Armed Forces is necessary because young people are better physically prepared and more quickly oriented in modern technologies used on the battlefield.
Reducing the conscription age for the Defense Forces is necessary because young people have better physical fitness and are more quickly oriented in modern technologies that are widely used on the battlefield. This was stated by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with French journalist and blogger Hugo Traver, UNN reports .
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According to him, today the military command has a request for the age and level of physical fitness of mobilized soldiers who will be sent to war. Zelensky emphasized that in order to replace soldiers on the front line, the military must be in good physical shape.
We need to prepare brigades that will replace those that have been at the front for two years. To do this, to be an adequate replacement, people need to train and be in a serious physical condition. With all due respect to our soldiers, we are saying that there is a difference between a 25-year-old soldier and a 50-year-old soldier
He noted that there are different challenges and different technologies for defenders in different areas. In addition, the Head of State explained that younger people are better and much faster at navigating the technologies used in war.
In any case, we have to understand that the new generation is tech-savvy. They understand it, they created it all with their own hands. Their brains created it
Recall
At the beginning of the month, on April 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a bill to lower the conscription age from 27 to 25 years old.
