Ukraine requested partners to equip 10 military brigades but received support for only 2.5, Zelensky comments on calls to lower the conscription age.

The President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that partners want Ukraine to lower the age of conscription. However, he stated that Ukraine's issue lies in equipping its servicemen with weapons and equipment, not in the number of personnel. The President made this statement in an interview with the British television channel Sky News.

Zelensky revealed that Western partners have supplied weapons to only 2.5 out of the 10 brigades needed.

"Partners talk about mobilization, but the real problem is with the 10 brigades that our partners have not equipped. I have been asking them for over a year because we need to equip these brigades. We made this decision with the United States and European allies, and today Europe and the United States have fully equipped two and a half brigades," the President explained.

According to Zelensky, this situation arose due to "some bureaucracy, some decisions."

"Someone asked me about mobilization, and I don’t want to assert that this is the position of certain leaders in Europe. They say young people are needed, etc. And I replied: do you want someone to go to their death without weapons?" Zelensky said, adding that decisions regarding the number of servicemen take into account the need to preserve as many lives as possible.

As previously reported by “Judicial and Legal Newspaper”, the administration of Joe Biden called on Ukrainian authorities to quickly increase the size of the army by conscripting more people and amending their mobilization laws to allow conscription of men aged 18.

In time, the President's advisor Dmytro Litvin commented on the U.S. call to lower the conscription age.

The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Georgiy Tikhiy confirmed that the topic of possibly lowering the conscription age to 18 is being discussed in negotiations with international partners, including the U.S.