Russia - threadbanned users in OP

That isn't true. They have drafted conscripts and i've personally spoken to Ukrainians here who had to avoid border checks to leave Ukraine. It is what it is but it certainly isn't volunteering when you're told you can't leave the country and face a draft.

No they have not, up until this point Ukraine has only recalled reservists, which they had 750,000 of before this war. They do have a draft system which requires men in a certain age bracket and not in excluded professions to REGISTER for the military draft. That is what the people you have spoken to have fled, but they have not called people into the army from that draft yet.

They have drafted several thousand specialists, medical staff, engineers, electricians for roles that require specific skills. There are no brigades of front line troops in the Ukrainian army made up of conscripts, and that is fact. The Ukrainian army consists of the professional core army of 250,000 that existed at the start of the war, the few hundred thousand called up reservists called up from the 750,000 reservists who existed at the start of the war, the couple of hundred thousand volunteers who have joined up since the war started less the estimated 100k to 150k, casulaties since the war begin. The final figure a couple of thousand conscripted specialists. No draft call up has yet occurred.

Not has no draft yet occurred they still have not called up all their reservists.

Again, not true. You're just avoiding the fact you are wrong instead of learning from it.

Civilians are being drafted that were never reservists.

That dude is infamous for this Chicken Little takes whenever things hit the slightest snag for Ukraine.

This was posted, specifically about him, a few months ago:

Could they not have just simply bombed the same area twice ?

6. Tea

I spotted that. The user calling him out actually retweeted his own tweet to pretty much confirm what he suspected would be said when the counteroffensive starts.

But it's more down to the little bit of info/videos we got at the start of the Kherson counteroffensive, where people on here we're saying it was a failure etc....

Same thing repeating now. Eerily similar to the D-Day landings, especially the timing. Some beach landings will have a harder time punching through the defences etc...

Just need to have patience and let the AFU do what they do best and have been trained to do.

As early as last March men were forcibly conscripted, they didn't volunteer.

http://archive.today/CexET

Men who only had experience because of conscription being conscripted because of their conscription. A whole lot of conscription.

As I said, it is what it is and they're at war with an invader so needs must but we can't call them a volunteer force when they actively conscript, when the very definition of the word is compulsary military service.

Called up reservist only are referred to in that article. A reservist joins the army, he made the decision to do so, suddenly saying you do not want to be in the army after a war starts is not F*****g conscription.

A reservist is a reservist, a conscript is a conscript, a draftee is a draftee and an orange is an orange not an apple.

I saw pics the ukrainians put up of a damaged leopard , that they'd recovered ,

The impication was that they'd secured the ground , ( at least enough for recovery)

That the vehicle was repairable , and the crew had survived

Wether all that was true ?

That is an article written by a journalist, he happens to be incorrect. Do you want to know the specialists with skills required in short demand were called SortingYouOut, because I do know who specialist skill that was called up SortingYouOut. They called up Accountants sortingyouout, they had a shortage of payroll specialist to deal with the volunteers.

Might not be the leopard that has hit by artillery along side Bradleys and mraps ,

There will always be an element of downplaying Ukrainian loses either on social media or here

I very much doubt they are commiting too much forward at this time. I'm imagine its mainly APC's, probing getting troops into position before getting out of dodge before returning with another batch. Troops are hard to target whilst vehicles are easy meat if they're stopped for even a short period. Troops can move from cover to cover and they can always call in artilery strikes if the going gets hot. I'd be very surprised if they're committing too many tanks to the frontline as the moment as you're essentially hanging them out to dry.