Hundreds of thousands of military-age Ukrainian men are living abroad and the country faces an acute shortage of troops against a larger, better-equipped enemy nearly 26 months since Russia's full-scale invasion.
On Thursday, Ukraine adopted new mobilization requirements, forcing all men aged 18 to 60 to register within 60 days and carry documents with them in public. Weeks earlier, the conscription age was lowered from 27 to 25.