He said this on air at a national telethon.
As RIA Novosti reports, according to him, some military personnel are in the combat zone 24/7 and in order to avoid a gap with those who have not yet fought and to have the logistics structured correctly, it is necessary for the military registration and enlistment offices to work “a little differently.”
In addition, Podolyak, citing Zelensky’s statements, said that almost a million people were mobilized in Ukraine, while there were 200-300 thousand directly at the front.
At the end of January, Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with the ARD television channel stated that the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is about 880 thousand people.
On February 2, a Ukrainian prisoner of war said that since the summer of 2023, out of 130 servicemen in one company of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, about 80 people remained in service.