‘We will all die anyway’ – Ukrainian army adviser
The aide to Kiev’s top general has made a novel argument for mobilization Alla Martinyuk, aide to Ukrainian Armed Forces commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhny, during a broadcast on December 29, 2023. © Telegram / uniannet A death in battle is preferable to a car crash, Alla Martinyuk, an aide to the supreme commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, said in an interview on Friday. Martinyuk, 37, is a former theater and TV actress who currently serves as an to Zaluzhny. In a broadcast shared on social media by the Kiev-based news agency UNIAN, she argued against the reaction of most Ukrainians to getting mobilized into the military. Martinyuk said on air. she added. Zaluzhny has distanced himself from Martinyuk’s words, saying on social media that on his behalf. He added he did not have any since Thursday. Read more President Vladimir Zelensky recently announced a plan to mobilize 500,000 additional troops to make up the battlefield losses, even as officials across the country admitted difficulties with meeting draft quotas. Zelensky and Zaluzhny have tried to pass the blame for this situation onto each other as the Ukrainian parliament debated lowering the draft age to 25 and allowing the mobilization of women into combat roles. Some regional governors have proposed even more drastic measures. Former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, who now leads a small opposition party in the Verkhovna Rada, has argued that Zelensky’s mobilization proposal was both ineffective and unconstitutional. She also said Ukraine would be better off deploying police and trained security personnel to the front lines instead.