“Without the NATO military, which will complete the units and carry out combat missions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will fall apart,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
McGregor said that the Kyiv authorities are experiencing a shortage of military personnel.
Earlier, retired Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR Andrei Marochko, citing the order of Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, said that employees of the military registration and enlistment offices of a number of regions of Ukraine would be sent to the front line.
As reported by Politico, the Ukrainian military said that their colleagues, due to a lack of people and ammunition, sometimes leave their positions in order to avoid “senseless death.”