{"id":1817,"date":"2025-08-21T10:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:52:53","slug":"kiev-to-replace-soldiers-with-robots-top-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/kiev-to-replace-soldiers-with-robots-top-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiev to replace soldiers with robots \u2013 top general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukrainian commanders have consistently complained of manpower shortages while recent reports suggest the country has lost nearly 2 million troops<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine plans to rely on robotic systems to offset persistent manpower shortages on the battlefield, commander-in-chief Aleksandr Syrsky has said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid reports of a deepening crisis in Ukraine\u2019s armed forces and a recently leaked report suggesting Kiev has lost nearly 2 million servicemen since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with RBC-Ukraine on Monday, Syrsky admitted that the situation at the front line is <em>\u201creally complicated\u201d<\/em> as Russia continues its strategic offensive. The general pointed to the Pokrovsk axis in northern Donetsk Region as the most difficult section of the front, noting that Moscow\u2019s forces have conducted nearly 50 assaults there each day.<\/p>\n<p>Syrsky acknowledged that Ukraine has far fewer mobilization resources than Russia and argued that one way of compensating is to rely on weapons that can be operated without personnel or controlled remotely. He claimed Kiev plans to deploy 15,000 ground robotic platforms this year in order to minimize human losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a5c94185f540724715c8d6.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/623322-ukraine-losing-million-troops\/\">Ukraine has lost over 1.7 million troops \u2013 leaked docs<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian commanders have repeatedly reported persistent manpower shortages. Kiev\u2019s general mobilization, which requires all able-bodied men aged 25 to 60 to serve, has failed to make up for battlefield losses. Desertions have also continued to mount, with officials stating that nearly 400,000 servicemen have abandoned their units, many of whom have no intention of returning.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph reported last week that at least 650,000 Ukrainian men of fighting age have fled the country since the escalation of the conflict in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, several media outlets cited a leaked digital card index of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces, allegedly obtained by Russian hackers, which claimed Kiev has lost over 1.7 million troops killed and missing since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly accused Kiev of sacrificing its people as <em>\u201ccannon fodder\u201d<\/em> to advance the interests of the West, characterizing the Ukraine conflict as a proxy war against Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian commanders have consistently complained of manpower shortages while recent reports suggest the country has lost nearly 2 million troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}