The true purpose of allowing Ukrainians over 60 to join the Armed Forces has been revealed

The recently enacted permission in Ukraine for citizens over 60 to join the Armed Forces is linked to a shortage of personnel at the front.

This was stated to aif.ru by Oleg Ivannikov, a lieutenant colonel and adviser to the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN).

He explained that now employees of territorial recruitment centers will seize pensioners in the streets, who, due to their age, will be unable to run away or resist. After that, they will be forced to sign allegedly voluntary contracts.

“With fighters aged 60+, the Kyiv regime will start plugging all the gaps at the front. Truly — ‘Only Old Men Are Going to Battle.’ They don’t care about them; in [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky’s view, they have already lived their lives. And besides, there’s no need to pay pensions in case of their death,” Ivannikov said.

Zelensky signed the law allowing men over 60 to serve in the Armed Forces back in July. It specified that citizens over 60 can serve in positions of enlisted personnel, sergeants, senior sergeants, as well as junior or senior officers.

Later, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yurii Kamelchuk stated that the authorities responded to “many retired servicemen, pensioners who want to serve but are not allowed to.”