The dairy company Arla would be in trouble if they had to do this :D

Arla Finland has one of the few most prominent nazis in Finland in their board of directors. There was a bit of a scandal because of this about a year or two ago, but Arla's Finnish daughter company said "we already know, but he has promised not to be a nazi during working hours, and it's every employee's personal choice what they do in their free time." And Finland was okay with that (!!)

Guess if I have bought their products even once after that? 🙃

Well said. If they did, they wouldn't really be humane. Allowing unnecessary suffering is inhumane.

A lot of Crimeans DID do the same. Why do you assume they didn't?

I don't think it matters whether after those hours of travelling and queuing you need to press buttons on a touch screen or scribble two or three numbers on a piece of paper.

Neither case makes the drive any shorter.

There is a workaround used by Element and Telegram FOSS. They have notifications without using Android's standard notification system.

In Ukrainian cats (кіт / kit) and whales (кит / kyt) are the same thing, if you ask my ears. As are being hungry (голодний / holodnyj) and cold (холодний / kholodnyj).

I can never know if their whale is hungry or if their cat feels cold.

Finland has 5,6 million inhabitants and a wartime military strength of almost one million men, when the military trained reserve is counted in the number. Of course that would mean a huge deficit in workforce, and that would be devastating for the economy. But there are that many men ready to serve if needed. Each one has a specific position earmarked for them in case that a war erupts.

Ukraine has some 40 million inhabitants, so it will be able to gather an army of at least five million men if its population finds motivation for that. It is quite surprising that they are able to be this uninterested in defending their country after all this time in war, but in the other hand: Until 2014 Ukraine's military was extremely similar to what Belarus's still is now in 2025. You could die in the army through being beaten up for fun by your own superiors. And because many military commanders have received their training before 2014, a noteworthy share of them still have very little respect for the individual soldier. The fear that you could end up serving under such a commander is an important factor, of course.

But also: Whatever the reasons for the comparatively low motivation for self-defence, if the Russia was to begin seriously advancing, that motivation would rise. It's a problem that kind of solves itself. If it starts having serious consequences, the Russia will increase its pace. If the pace is increased too much, Ukrainians will start bothering to defend their country in larger masses than they now do. And then the size of the army will be recovered more and more, until the Russian advance will be halted. It's a self-correcting problem.

Ukraine's losses are proportionally smaller than those of the Russia, and the defending party in a war is able to muster soldiers more easily (or rather: less difficultly) than the aggressor. Even if the size of Ukraine's army would shrink because of recruitment problems, it feels quite unrealistic to assume that it would shrink as fast as that of the Russia.

It's super unfair towards the soldiers at the front that they need to serve year after year without being relieved. But the Ukrainian military is not in a danger of collapsing because of this.

Marco Rubio is in Trump's administration. Nothing that comes from there should be assumed true.

They are not running out of Ukrainians. They will have enough of them for another 1300 years with this pace of losses. Also the Russia isn't running out of Russians for several centuries at this pace.

What is happening, however, is that the Russia is losing soldiers faster than it can recruit new ones.

Might be. I cannot know from over here :) What are the luxuries they have?

The Russia was able to barely retain the size of its forces when its losses were 800 to 1200 per day. Now they are 1300 to 1900 per day, and its ability to recruit new troops has not risen and it seems it may have even decreased.

That means, the size of the Russian armed forces is decreasing by 500 to 700 soldiers each day! In a year that makes 180 000 to 255 000 soldiers per year. When their army shrinks in size with about 200 000 soldiers per year, they're very soon going to have plenty of "fun" trying to defend all of their front.

You need a small automatized AD machine gun or similar for every group of soldiers. Can be done, but requirea a huge amount of those anti-drone guns. Basically the amount of soldiers on the front, divided by ten or so.

Last year the Russia was advancing faster than expected. During the whole year they managed to conquer 0.7 % of Ukraine's total area. Less than one percent. And that's their "fast".

Their recruitment capacity is 25 000 to 35 000 soldiers per montg, which tranalates to roughly 1000 per day. And losses (dead+wounded) have been mostly around 1800 per day.

Recent video footage shows almost no Russian tanks but only light DIY vehicles.

Even if Ukraine was to lose all western military support, the Russia would not be able to advance faster than 10 times the speed of last year. And that would be 7% of Ukraine's total territory. Not enough for victory.

The Ukrainian economy is so small that EU countries would have no problem covering 100% of its budget. Ukraine's economy will therefore survive indefinitely. The Russia's won't.

Time is strongly on Ukraine's side. They can lose only if the west withdraws all support. We're not stupid enough to do that.

So, as you said: Since the Russia's loss is inevitable, why continue wasting their lives?