Ukraine Moves to Force Fighting-Age Men Into the Meatgrinder for U.S.
Ukraine has a dramatic shortage of troops willing to die in Washington's attempt to weaken Russia.
Dmitry Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, posted on X Tuesday that Kyiv is moving to pressure Ukrainian men who fled the country to avoid war with Russia by potentially cutting off their access to essential government services.
Ukraine will be receiving $61 billion in funding from the U.S., but it is having a hard time fielding a capable army. Thousands of men have fled and it is believed that up to 500,000 have died on the battlefield since the start of the war.
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Kuleba posted on X that it is unfair that men who left the country would be treated the same as those who stayed.
”How it looks like now: a man of conscription age went abroad, showed his state that he does not care about its survival, and then comes and wants to receive services from this state. It does not work this way. Our country is at war,” he posted, according to RT, the Russian outlet.
He continued, “Staying abroad does not relieve a citizen of his or her duties to the Homeland.”
The Washington Post reported: The mobilization law, which takes effect next month, requires all men between age 18 and 60 to update their personal information with their military registration office within 60 days. Under the law, those who fail to register and are living abroad should be denied consular services.
There are no official statistics on how many men between 18 and 60 fled the country. The report said there could be up to 80,0000 Ukrainian men seeking refuge in Poland alone. The general feeling among countries is that it is a human right to avoid conscription.
DW, the German outlet, reported earlier that Ukrainian men, desperate to live, have forged documents and have tried to sneak across the border into neighboring countries. The report said more than 15,000 men have been detained in Ukraine trying to illegally cross, the report said.
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When these men are captured, they are immediately taken to a recruitment center to be processed, one border guard told the outlet.