For the unmotivated: TCC explained the main paradox of mobilization.

Mobilization and Contract Service

Mobilization is not intended for motivated citizens - there is a contract service for them.

This was stated in an interview with Telegraf by the spokesman of the Poltava Regional TCC and SP, Major Roman Istomin.

'There is military service under contract for those who are motivated. Mobilization is basically for unmotivated individuals. Mobilization is mandatory military service', emphasized the major.

According to him, after the draft, some mobilized individuals find motivation, while others do not. Nevertheless, even unmotivated soldiers do not necessarily leave their units voluntarily. 'This mostly happens when a soldier cannot find common ground with their commander, when they feel unnecessary in the unit', explained Istomin.

The TCC spokesman noted that people become true warriors 'when it boils down to the soul'.

He recalled the volunteers of 2022: 'I think half of them were simply patriots who understood that they needed to defend their land from the enemy. They understood that it would be hard, cold, dirty, painful, there would be nothing to eat, that they could get wounded or, ultimately, killed. They understood, yet they still went'.

A Difficult Choice for Society

In Istomin's opinion, society is currently facing a difficult choice: 'Either we now staff units with unmotivated or conditionally motivated people, or we say that we have no soldiers, freeze the conflict and wait for the next attack from the Russians'.

The major also commented on the difference in people's attitudes toward the war: 'Those who go to fight often say: 'I understand that the Russians may come here sooner or later. I might as well meet them far from Poltava'. While others sit at home justifying themselves: 'It’s far away, it’s not mine. When they come to Poltava, that’s when I’ll show them'.

'But then it will be too late', emphasized Istomin, adding that next Time 'it is quite possible that the defense will have to be held along the Dnipro'.