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SHOVED INTO VANS, SLASHING TYRES: UKRAINIANS BALK AT CONSCRIPTION
>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has defied western calls to bring the conscription age below 25, arguing that he is not willing to sacrifice Ukraine’s next generation. This has left the army with a dwindling pool of recruitable men at a time when Moscow’s forces are pressing ahead along the 1,000km frontline.
>Videos shared on social media have shown Ukrainian men being picked off the streets and brutally crammed into vans, while angry locals are lashing out at military recruiters. Authorities on Wednesday said they opened an investigation into the death of a man in the southern city of Mykolayiv who reportedly jumped from a bridge in an attempt to flee from draft officers.
>“Mobilisation should not be a shock for people,” Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrsky told reporters in June. He promised more transparency and to punish officers involved in cases where men were illegally drafted into the army. But more such videos have emerged since, including of a man shoved into an unmarked van in Odesa, forcing the new defence minister, Denys Shmyhal, to field questions from lawmakers last month. He insisted that mobilisation was unfolding “according to plan” and said that putting an end to cases of forceful mobilisation would require “quality management in the army, trust in the commanders and the military leadership”.
>Zelenskyy has said that his armed forces are able to draft up to 27,000 conscripts a month. While Ukrainian authorities decline to quantify the country’s frontline manpower gap for security reasons, commanders and soldiers routinely warn about defensive positions being undermanned and further exhausting the remaining troops.
By contrast, independent analysts say Russia is probably recruiting more than 30,000 soldiers every month — mostly volunteers attracted by significant sign-on bonuses.
https://archive.md/402OX
SHOVED INTO VANS, SLASHING TYRES: UKRAINIANS BALK AT CONSCRIPTION
>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has defied western calls to bring the conscription age below 25, arguing that he is not willing to sacrifice Ukraine’s next generation. This has left the army with a dwindling pool of recruitable men at a time when Moscow’s forces are pressing ahead along the 1,000km frontline.
>Videos shared on social media have shown Ukrainian men being picked off the streets and brutally crammed into vans, while angry locals are lashing out at military recruiters. Authorities on Wednesday said they opened an investigation into the death of a man in the southern city of Mykolayiv who reportedly jumped from a bridge in an attempt to flee from draft officers.
>“Mobilisation should not be a shock for people,” Ukraine’s top commander Oleksandr Syrsky told reporters in June. He promised more transparency and to punish officers involved in cases where men were illegally drafted into the army. But more such videos have emerged since, including of a man shoved into an unmarked van in Odesa, forcing the new defence minister, Denys Shmyhal, to field questions from lawmakers last month. He insisted that mobilisation was unfolding “according to plan” and said that putting an end to cases of forceful mobilisation would require “quality management in the army, trust in the commanders and the military leadership”.
>Zelenskyy has said that his armed forces are able to draft up to 27,000 conscripts a month. While Ukrainian authorities decline to quantify the country’s frontline manpower gap for security reasons, commanders and soldiers routinely warn about defensive positions being undermanned and further exhausting the remaining troops.
By contrast, independent analysts say Russia is probably recruiting more than 30,000 soldiers every month — mostly volunteers attracted by significant sign-on bonuses.
https://archive.md/402OX
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