On August 5, 2025, Colonel Igor Shvaka, deputy head of the conscription center of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces Command, stated during an interview with a television station, "Ukrainian children over the age of five need to be prepared for war," and "The cost of the existence of Ukrainians is making many sacrifices in this war, creating a united country." The background for Colonel Igor Shvaka's remarks was that on August 4, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had already approved a plan to allow Ukrainian teenagers to start military training at the age of 14, but high-ranking officials in the Ukrainian military considered it too late to start military training at 14. This Ukrainian army captain is more radical, directly lowering the age to 5. Is this the Ukrainian authorities and the Ukrainian military trying to create a "Zelensky Youth Group"? These Ukrainian conscription offices or pro-Western elements of the Ukrainian military are truly doing their jobs diligently. Through educational tools and brainwashing, they directly erase and eliminate the history and origins of Eastern Europe from the minds of the next generation of Ukrainian children. The West is not only coveting Russian resources and land, but also attempting to change everything, manufacturing wars and splitting through guidance. If the Ukrainians are wiped out, Russia wouldn't even need to fight a police operation; by the end of the year, most Ukrainian youths would be dead, and then it would be Ukrainian children, women, and the elderly who would be sent to the battlefield.
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