Posted on 12/15/2023 10:59:52 AM PST by Mount Athos
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.
Andrii Semaka, a soldier who in the early months of the war worked in the Vyzhnytsia recruiting center, said his office would bring in 15 to 20 potential conscripts a day. Roughly a quarter of them, he said, would bribe his superior, who remains in charge of the center, offering around $1,000 dollars to avoid being drafted. That price has only gone up since.
One doctor at a nearby hospital, he said, would forge the documents from the medical commission after receiving a call from the recruiting center. The supervisor would call the doctor and say: “For this one, write that he is unfit. And for the other, write that he is healthy,’” he said.
Residents in the region have said more recently that it was open knowledge that men could buy their way out of service.
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The press gangs need to go to the Propaganda Ministry in Kiev and grab Speedy, mom, Canuck, Megan, etc. it’s their time now.
Wow, when the New York Times is saying things like this, you know the end is near for the Ukraine resistance.
Bribes are not limited to Ukraine but systemic all over eastern Europe. I know from my experience traveling there.
“Wow, when the New York Times is saying things like this, you know the end is near for the Ukraine resistance.”
Yes. Video of these sorts of recruitment tactics have been on Twitter for more than a year.
For the NYT to finally cover the story means the Regime is getting ready to cut Ukraine loose.
It’s certainly easier to recruit rapists and murders in Russian prisons. How do you feel about the filth and scum of Russia being sent to mass murder Ukrainians? Apparently, quite well.
Meanwhile in Russia, volunteer recruitments are enrolling 1,500 people a day.
When going into the army is ones best opportunity, you know your country sucks.
In the U.S. we used to call it the draft.
Once they cannot find enough people to press into uniforms, the spigot will get cut off.
The gay flag
Over Europe
At half mast
“When going into the army is ones best opportunity, you know your country sucks.”
America’s veterans thank you for your service.
Heh, I thought you were going to write a Haiku! I prefer limericks...
A country corrupt like Ukraine
Caught up in it’s own corrupt pain
Tries to empty the banks
With insults not thanks
For those who won’t make money rain
It was a gratuitous exercise in death for the sake of pride, pretense, and embezzlement
I would have worded it: "When going into the army is ones best ONLY opportunity, you know your country sucks..."
Of course, if I am wrong about the insult being unintentional, I withdraw the benefit of the doubt!
funwithfood is lefty troll with new FR account who exposed himself with his comment.
He thinks people who serve in the military are chumps and hates his own country.
Sad
Reminds me of New Yorkers during the Civil War.
Kudos and bravo!
Sometimes levity and such can make for relief from the incessant noise -- with some jolly noise! Hurrah!
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