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The number of people who need to be mobilized has been “significantly reduced” from the initially proposed 500,000, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said on March 29. In an interview with Ukrinform, Oleksandr Syrskyi said the figure had been reviewed and “we expect we will have enough people capable of defending,” though he did not specify the new estimates. In December, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine’s military leadership – then headed by Valerii Zaluzhnyi – had proposed to mobilize 450,000-500,000 additional conscripts in order to ensure sufficient rotation of troops from the front li…

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