The average age of those mobilized, who fall into the ranks of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is now 35-44 years. — Ukrinform.
This was told in an interview with Ukrinform by Colonel Oleksandr Kupinskyi, Head of the 199th Training Center of the State Secondary School of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Most of the mobilized people who come to us are people between the ages of 35 and 44. I have seen men who are far over 40 years old, and they are physically stronger than guys aged 26-27," Kupinsky said.
In his opinion, age is a rather vague concept, because it all depends on the way of life a person led when he was a civilian.
According to him, now the paratrooper is not a man from a beautiful picture, and he does not need to be 190 cm tall and broad-shouldered. First of all, a person must be healthy, morally stable, confident.
"We will make her a paratrooper, if she also has the desire," said Kupinsky.
"In 2022-2023, we conducted a very tough selection. Of 100% of the people who came to us, 50-60% were selected. Everyone at the selection stage passed physical training, we conducted a medical examination, studied in depth the moral, psychological and business qualities, as a result of which a lot of people were eliminated.