Posted on 04/24/2024 1:40:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Poland is ready to help Ukraine in getting military-age male citizens to return and help their home country in fighting in the war against Russia, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian government announced rules on Wednesday under which passports for military-age men can be issued only inside the country instead of foreign diplomatic missions.
As a result, men aged between 18 and 59 living abroad will be unable to renew expiring passports or obtain new ones.
Poland has suggested in the past helping Ukraine so that those who are subject to military service go back to their country to fulfill their civic obligation, Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polsat News television.
"I think many Poles are outraged when they see young Ukrainian men in hotels and cafes, and they hear how much effort we have to make to help Ukraine," he said, without giving any details on how Poland will help.
Some 4.3 million Ukrainians are living in European Union countries as of January, 2024, of whom about 860,000 are adult men, the Eurostat database estimates. Poland has granted temporary protection status to 950,000 Ukrainians, the second-largest number after Germany.
"Any support is possible," Kosiniak-Kamysz said about how Poland would respond if Kyiv asked for help in bringing home those who may lose their right to stay in Poland once their passports expire.
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I agree about the draft dodgers like Clinton, but you seem to be casting aspersions on guys who took deferments they were eligible for. I don’t blame Trump and Biden. My Dad took the deferment for married with children in WWII. He got drafted after he got divorced and he reported for duty so maybe you shouldn’t be so quick to disparage people.
Not at all, I said that Clinton was a draft dodger because he absolutely cheated to not get drafted with that letter business and the colonel (I forget the details), I said that the other two were draft evaders because they sought out a legal but shady way to pay their way out with their private doctors with sudden medical issues that no one believes and which were only a sudden problem for that one desperate moment when their other deferments ran out.
Don’t create out of thin air something that I never said and that your father’s case has no relevance to.
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