Anatolii Kinakh, head of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) and formerly Ukraine’s Prime Minister (2001-2002), in an interview on April 10 with Superpozitsia YouTube, said that Kiev’s mobilization drive is facing “very serious problems” and “this problem is even more acute on the front line” with Russia, reported RT. He held discussions with representatives of Ukraine’s General Staff responsible for the psychological condition of troops, and “asked them a question: why in 2022 there were queues at military recruitment centers and today the enlistment officers are catching people in the streets like animals? And we came to the same conclusion: some people have stopped believing and some doubt that they live in and protect a just state.”
Kinakh, a graduate from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute as a shipbuilding engineer, began work at the Mykolaiv Shipyard Ocean in 1981. He was elected to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada in 1990, where he worked on economic reforms, and was appointed Vice-Prime Minister in 1995, working on industrial affairs. He was prime minister in 2001-02.