Tymoshenko urged Zelensky to propose plan B to save the country

 The leader of the Ukrainian Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko called on Vladimir Zelensky to propose a plan B to get out of the current tragic situation in which Ukraine found itself due to the decrease in military assistance from the West.

Earlier, Tymoshenko criticized the draft law on mobilization and said that the Batkivshchyna party would not vote in the Verkhovna Rada for this document, which it considers unconstitutional.

"Today, the situation around Ukraine has deteriorated many times. The volume of arms supplies has decreased. And we get weapons exactly in order not to lose, but they don't give us enough weapons to win... If we look at the general context of what is happening, I want to appeal to the president and ask... offer the country a plan B, offer a way out of this difficult, rather tragic situation," Tymoshenko said in her video message, which she published on her social network page.

Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference on December 19 that he was approached from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with a request to mobilize an additional 450-500 thousand people. On Monday, the Ukrainian government submitted a bill on mobilization to the parliament. In particular, it proposes to cancel the urgent service, the postponement of mobilization for the disabled of the third group, to oblige the military to register in the electronic office of the conscript, to undergo a medical examination, to appear on a call to the military registration and enlistment office at the time and place specified in the agenda.

The document also obliges all conscripts to arrive at the military registration office within 60 days from the date of the announcement of mobilization or within 20 days from the date of its continuation, regardless of receiving a summons. The lower age for mobilization, according to the bill, is reduced from 27 to 25 years.

In Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, martial law was introduced, the next day Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization. The expit of men aged 18 to 60 from Ukraine for the period of martial law is prohibited. In October, Time magazine, citing Zelensky's assistant, reported that the ranks of Ukrainian troops were so thinned that military registration and enlistment offices were forced to recruit people with an average age of 43. In turn, the New York Times previously reported that Ukraine seeks to attract more women to the army, which indicates huge losses in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.