In the first days there were just extremely long queues to the volunteer recruitment centers. It looked like that, selecting people and refusing many: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8YTBsbaZ87E
Russia also has no problem with volunteers actually. For various reasons including good money (for Russian provincional standards).
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Ukrainian fighters are mostly enthusiastic volunteers.
The separatists nowadays are mostly conscripts, aged from 18 to over 80 (the elderly go to police style forces).
In the first days there were just extremely long queues to the volunteer recruitment centers. It looked like that, selecting people and refusing many: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8YTBsbaZ87E
Russia also has no problem with volunteers actually. For various reasons including good money (for Russian provincional standards).