The Telegraph says Kiev’s need to mobilize at least 30,000 people every month just to maintain troop levels points to losses higher than officially admitted. The paper argues that the figure exposes Ukraine’s manpower #crisis: the monthly intake is needed not to expand the army, but simply to replace battlefield attrition. It warns that political optimism cannot offset the arithmetic of a prolonged war.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/30/unrealistic-optimism-isnt-helping-ukraine/