This is pretty unusual, usually you have no problem recruiting to defend the homeland so Ukraine's military should be flush with young men willing to sacrifice themselves to save their country, but Ukraine are struggling for men and can't find anyone willing to go to the front. Perhaps this is because their commanders simply look at them as cannon fodder and totally expendable, and because the potential recruits reason that Russia cannot lose....Russia can only draw or win....Ukrainians can die for a draw or a loss.
50 years back if this war were to have taken place, patriotic fervour would have driven thousands to the Ukronazi front lines. It seems that patriotism, thank god, is on the decline. Why should men die for their vile, corrupt politicians and oligarchs?