“More fertilizer for our land,” 33-year-old sales manager Ksenia Borodenko told Al Jazeera in central Kyiv, hours after the Russian president. – said Vladimir PutinWednesday morning that they plan to mobilize additional troops.

But she is worried about the fate of the Ukrainian military, who will have to face the new troops of the “Russians” – a neologism that combines “Russian” and “fascist”.

“Our boys will die fighting this scum,” said Borodenko, whose older brother Roman went to fight against pro-Russian separatists in 2014 and left again in March. “Even if we lose one of ours instead of a hundred of theirs, it will be tragic,” she says.

A community leader from the Kyiv-controlled part of the southeastern Donetsk region shared his opinion.

“The liquidation of the Russians will be more intense,” says Nadiya Hordyuk, who was forced to leave her small town, located just a few kilometers from the front line, due to intense Russian bombing.

However, “if the mobilization intensifies, many more civilians will die in the east [Ucrainei]which [rușii] they came face to protect them. It’s really scary,” she told Al Jazeera.

Ihor Trubenok, a sound engineer from Kyiv, expressed his feelings more frankly.

“The Ukrainian people have no choice but to kill the Russian occupiers,” he said. “And since there are no other options, we don’t care about **** and who they mobilize.”

Ukrainian troops are not afraid

The commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will destroy all enemies, no matter how many there are, in response to the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

For the Ukrainian military, mobilized Russians are not a problem either – at least for now.

“Until they are trained and turned into a team, it will be a few months before we can have a break,” a Ukrainian military officer joked to Al Jazeera.

“If they don’t form a team and send them directly to the front line, it will be nothing but a senseless massacre. It’s unpleasant, it’s boring, but it’s not something to fear as a serious problem,” he says.

On the day when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilization in Russia, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian army had lost almost 6,000 soldiers in the war in Ukraine, TASS and Meduza reported.

Shoigu is trying to raise the spirits of Russians: “half of the Ukrainian army is lost”

Shoigu also stated that since the beginning of the war. 61,000 deaths were recorded in Ukraine among the army and 49,000 wounded, Meduza notes.

According to Shoigu, “half of the army is lost.”

Instead, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claims this in its morning report on Wednesday more than 55,000 Russian soldiers died since the beginning of the invasion.