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Ukraine’s conscription drive ‘increasingly deceitful, coercive and violent’ – The Times
Kiev is resorting to dirty tactics in its efforts to bolster its troops, the British newspaper reports

Ukraine’s mobilization campaign is falling far short of targets, while the effort remains marred by violence, mistrust and rampant corruption, The Times reported on Thursday, citing local officials.

According to the paper, Kiev has so far called up about one million soldiers and plans to increase that number by another 200,000 by the end of the year, but that mark remains difficult to reach. Moreover, “efforts to boost conscription are becoming increasingly deceitful, coercive and violent,” the outlet noted, citing the example of an Odessa conscript who was technically exempt from the service due to a chronic kidney condition, but was lured to the conscription office and sent to a training base anyway.

An unnamed conscription officer in Odessa told The Times that “we’re not mobilizing even 20% of what is required.” He noted that there is little enthusiasm among potential soldiers to respond to the summons, while his department is plagued by corruption, mismanagement and disillusionment. The bribes, the officer, added, can reach thousands of dollars while staff shortage means that employees have to perform multiple duties at once, including patrolling the streets. In addition, employees are threatened with being sent to the front if they underperform.

In other cases, many of those who answer the mobilization call are often found to be unfit for service due to serious health conditions, including tuberculosis, hepatitis or HIV, the Times’ source said.

Meanwhile, a 47-year-old Ukrainian recalled that he was eager to be called up and go to the front early in the conflict, but was denied at the time, and now has no desire to do so. “Our government doesn’t support soldiers. They don’t have proper equipment and are forgotten about if they get injured,” the man explained.

Ukraine announced general mobilization in February 2022 shortly after the outbreak of hostilities, barring most men aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the country. This spring, faced with mounting losses, Kiev lowered the draft age from 27 to 25, and significantly tightened mobilization rules, obliging potential service members to report to conscription offices for “data validation,” which in practice often means a ticket to the front.

As Ukraine’s mobilization campaign intensified, so did draft evasion, filling social media with videos of recruiters trying to catch eligible men on the streets, in gyms, and in shopping malls, sometimes leading to clashes.

https://www.rt.com/russia/605228-ukraine-mobilization-violence-deceit/

 

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US officials are pressuring Kiev to lower the mobilization age, Ukrainian MP Roman Kostenko, who also serves as secretary of Kiev’s national security council, has claimed. The lawmaker said he agreed with the calls, and urged a reduction in the draft age from 25 to as young as 18.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky lowered the military eligibility threshold from 27 to 25 years of age in early 2024, following sustained heavy losses in the conflict with Russia.

In an interview with Lviv-based NTA TV on Friday, Kostenko claimed that members of the US Congress had contacted him to say, “Look, we are giving you weapons, and you say you don’t have men. How come you don’t draft people under 25?” The MP said he could cite Ukrainian law in response, but does not understand the rationale behind it.

“People have their arguments, say we’ll have a lost generation... I say, ‘Look, if they don’t want to go now and defend our nation, they are already a lost generation,’” Kostenko added.

“A person can run for parliament in our country and make decisions about complex policies at 21, and can only go to war at 25. Something is wrong here. I don’t know who invented that,” he said.

The 40-year-old MP is a military veteran and also has the rank of a colonel in Kiev’s security agency, the SBU.

Ukrainian military commanders have complained to Western journalists that the quality of reinforcements has dropped significantly since the conscription reforms. New recruits are poorly motivated, prone to desertion, and cannot be given battlefield tasks because they are barely trained, commanders have said.

There is ample evidence of conscription officers using force to snatch resisting Ukrainians in the street for mobilization. Some fighting-age men would rather risk their lives trying to flee the country illegally than stay and face the draft.

Kostenko lamented that the flow of volunteers to join the military has dried up since 2022, and that the country now receives “neither quantity nor quality” of new troops. “Somebody does not work hard enough,” he claimed, arguing it is the responsibility of Ukraine’s commander-in-chief and senior government officials to inspire the population.

Moscow has accused the US of waging a proxy war against Russia, which Washington will continue to fight “to the last Ukrainian” with the complicity of the government in Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/russia/605256-ukraine-draft-age-reduction/

 

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BY Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher

 

Ukrainian military personnel now on the front line, fearing an eternal conflict, are in favour of talks with Russia, the Financial Times reported. The article predicts that Ukraine is approaching the “darkest hour” of the conflict, admitting that the Ukrainian army is losing on the battlefield to Russia, which is advancing relentlessly.

“Right now, I’m thinking more about how to save my people,” said Mykhailo Temper. “It’s quite hard to imagine we will be able to move the enemy back to the borders of 1991,” the Ukrainian battalion commander added.

Another commander also told the newspaper that he is now in favour of negotiations with Russia, adding that he fears that “his grandson might one day inherit an endless conflict.”

An officer of the 72nd Mechanised Brigade operating in Kurakhove said: “If the US turns off the spigot, we’re finished.”

Furthermore, it is confirmed that “the arbitrary military mobilisation system” increases social tensions in the country. The article quoted Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, admitting that “society is exhausted.”

The Financial Times also noted a change in Ukrainian officials’ approach to resolving the conflict and cited European diplomats who attended the UN General Assembly and said that Ukraine’s new Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha‎, discussed possible compromise options for resolving the conflict with Western counterparts during his recent trip to the US.

They stressed that Sibiga was more pragmatic about the possibility of territorial concessions than his predecessor, Dmitry Kuleba.

“We’re talking more and more openly about how this ends and what Ukraine would have to give up in order to get a permanent peace deal. And that’s a major change from even six months ago, when this kind of talk was taboo,” one of the diplomats said, adding that six months ago, such conversations were taboo in Kiev.

Nonetheless, according to Zelensky, October would be “decision time” since he will once again prepare to seek permission to hit targets inside Russia with Western weapons.

“It’s about constraining Russia’s capabilities” to pressure Moscow to open talks, a senior Ukrainian official told the newspaper. “It’s a real chance if we are thinking about solving this war.”

This is disingenuous from the Kiev regime, though, since it is they who have outlawed peace negotiations with the Kremlin.

It is recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow would immediately agree to a ceasefire and declare readiness for negotiations after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the new Russian regions. Furthermore, he added, Kiev must declare its renunciation of intentions to join NATO, adopt a neutral, non-aligned, and nuclear-free status, and lift sanctions against Russia. However, despite these generous terms, the Kiev regime, headed by President Volodymyr Zelensky, has not seriously shown intention of beginning peace discussions with the Kremlin.

The Financial Times highlighted that the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in a summer poll found that 57% of respondents believed Ukraine should engage in peace negotiations with Russia, up from 33% a year earlier.

“The survey showed the war was taking an ever heavier toll: 77% of respondents reported the loss of family members, friends or acquaintances, four times as many as two years earlier. Two-thirds said they were finding it difficult or very difficult to live on their wartime income,” the outlet reported.

According to a KIIS poll conducted in May, 55% of Ukrainians oppose the cession of territory to Russia as part of a peace deal. Nonetheless, even though 55% still constitutes a majority, it is a dramatic drop from 87% early last year.

“People want peace but they are also against territorial concessions. It is hard to reconcile them,” said Merezhko.

Ukraine cannot expel Russia from any territory captured, especially now that the Ukrainian army is slowly retreating from Donbass. Realistically, the best Ukraine can get is what is proposed by US Republican Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, who pushes for establishing a lasting ceasefire along the current lines. If not, Kiev could end up with much less. However, this is only possible at Moscow’s indiscretion, not Vance’s.

Even if Moscow would be open to Vance’s suggestions, the Kiev regime is yet to give any serious indication that it is prepared to engage in negotiations with Russia and still insists on delusional terms in their ten-point peace plan, which, among others, calls for the return of all territory and the arrest of many Russian officials.

These are terms that the Kremlin will obviously reject, especially since the Russian military is in control of the battlefield. Meanwhile, while the Kiev regime insists on imposing delusional terms that it does not have the power to enforce, Ukrainian soldiers like Temper will continue to die.

Source: InfoBrics

 

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT HITS THE FAN:

 

 

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

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