Ukraine's mobilization needs quality, not just quantity - Colonel Kostenko

He said this on Espreso TV.

"All mobilisation figures in any country are secret. I would like to say that at the moment, starting from 18 May, when the law was adopted, the rate of mobilisation has increased significantly. In May-June, we recruited more people than in the previous few months, when the pace of mobilisation had slowed down. Even the military are now saying that if the rate does not drop, as it did in May-July, we may have more than 80% of our brigades manned by the end of the year, which means the army is fully combat ready," the colonel said.

According to him, however, quantity does not mean quality, so the big question in training centers is quality, because Ukrainian territorial recruitment centers are somewhere underperforming, chasing the number of personnel.

“And then we get people who either didn't pass the commission or are simply not taken away from the training centers because they are physically unable to perform certain tasks. Many brigades cannot afford to recruit people on their own, so they take those provided by the territorial recruitment center, and this is a problem. We also need quantity, but if we lose quality or reduce it to nothing, the quantity will be of no use,” summarized Kostenko.

• On July 16, the 60-day period for providing the service of updating the data of persons liable for military serviceended: more than 1.4 million Ukrainian citizens used the service during this time.