Thomas Gibbons-Neff – New York Times Dec 15, 2023
With Ukraine’s military facing mounting deaths and a stalemate on the battlefield, army recruiters have become increasingly aggressive in their efforts to replenish the ranks, in some cases pulling men off the streets and whisking them to recruiting centers using intimidation and even physical force.
Recruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and, in at least one case, tried to send a mentally disabled person to military training, according to lawyers, activists and Ukrainian men who have been subject to coercive tactics. Videos of soldiers shoving people into cars and holding men against their will in recruiting centers are surfacing with increasing frequency on social media and in local news reports.
The harsh tactics are being aimed not just at draft dodgers but at men who would ordinarily be exempt from service — a sign of the steep challenges Ukraine’s military faces maintaining troop levels in a war with high casualties, and against a much larger enemy.
Lawyers and activists say the aggressive methods go well beyond the scope of recruiters’ authority and in some cases are illegal. They point out that recruiters, unlike law enforcement officers, are not empowered to detain civilians, let alone force them into conscription. Men who receive draft notices are supposed to report to recruitment offices.
The unconventional tactics have led to a number of court cases this fall as men challenge what they claim are wrongful draft notices, unprofessional medical commissions and forced mobilization; in November alone, there were 226 court decisions related to mobilization, according to publicly available records.
Complicating the issue is the fact that Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia invaded in February 2022; some lawyers contend that this has laid the ground for a subjective interpretation — and abuse — of conscription laws.
“The military feel their impunity,” said Tetiana Fefchak, a lawyer who is the head of a public organization that represents men in conscription cases near the city of Chernivtsi, in western Ukraine. She believes that some of the tactics violated Ukrainian law, she said.
Whatever the resolution of the court challenges, the increasingly aggressive recruiting tactics are a reminder that military manpower is Ukraine’s most vital and limited resource. They are also a measure of the brutalizing effect on the citizenry of nearly 22 months of bloody combat.
After Russia invaded, Ukrainians rushed to enlist and defend their homeland. Now, the government acknowledges, many men are trying to avoid the fight.
Asked about accusations of forced conscription, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement: “Changes to the legislation relating to mobilization and demobilization processes are currently being developed in the Verkhovna Rada,” referring to Ukraine’s Parliament. If they are adopted, the statement went on to say, the ministry “will analyze the approved norms.”
It reminds me of the press gangs they used to have in the olden days when men and boys were snatched from the streets or kidnapped and forced to serve on board a Royal Navy ship. At least some of them were given the king’s shilling…whereas these Ukrainian men don’t seem to have any choice at all…they’re given their marching orders and that’s it!🤢
reports re coming in that IDF are deliberately targetting children
then quickly taking the bodies
they say these are for organ translant in israel
i could not load up photos sorry
Trying to fill up the ranks with more White goyim to slaughter. By the way, if any you any brainwashed do gooders think the Mongolian ghoul Putin is some kind of hero; reality needs to bite you in the arse.
Welcome to Whiteocide. The war is meant to be dragged out for years so the two Jew-Commie ghouls (Putin/Zelensky) can coordinate the extermination of millions of whites in Holodomor II. You see, the Israel Overlords want to eliminate the white race sometime this century–in the West they’re liquidating them via fentanyl, vaccines, miscegenation, wog invaders–whereas in Ukraine they’ve decided simply to decimate them via war. It all adds up. Each year there are less whites on the planet than the year before, until the year arrives when the white masses are gone & in their place millions of swarthy ugly mongrels exist–all according to the religious ideals of Judaism-Christianity. But hey, enjoy your Hebrew High Holy Day.
The ukrainian government have sent out “invitations” to the 200.000 people who fled the Ukraine and went to Germany, to come and fight for their country.
If the invitations are not “used” they will be sanctioned.
If that doesn’t work they can be “forcibly mobilized”
Something the Germans says they will not let happen on their turf.
https://www.rt.com/news/589524-germany-vows-protect-ukrainian-men/
https://www.rt.com/russia/589521-ukraine-mobilization-goals-ministry/
No one today has ever heard of the Mongols, yet they did not disappear. Far from it. The Ukraine people are being exterminated and the land is being cleared.
the snatchers should be first snatched !
the snatchers should be first snatched !
when FINALY BIDEN GETS KILLED ?