Wrote about the storm building around Ukraine's mobilisation policy for @KyivIndependent: This issue is both a uniquely painful catalyst of societal tension in a country at war, but also a very stark condensation of all of Ukraine's internal woes. 1/ kyivindependent.com/move-to-expand…
There are so many layers to this: but to boil it down to its very simplest essence: this is about a military fighting a brutal war of attrition needing more men to keep up the fight and a civilian male population not keen to go at this point in the war. 2/
@francisjfarrell @KyivIndependent War is often presented as a contest of wills, where the Ukrainians were more motivated to fight in the last to years. Apart from the legal and technical issues, is the will to fight fading?