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According to reports, multiple European countries are prepared to help Ukraine repatriate Ukrainian men subject to military conscription.
The Guardian reports Poland and Lithuania will help Ukraine get military-age men living abroad to return and fight in the conflict with Russia.
Poland and Lithuania pledge to help Kyiv repatriate Ukrainians subject to military draft https://t.co/H9v96wtNik
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 29, 2024
“We have suggested for a long time that we can help the Ukrainian side ensure that people subject to [compulsory] military service go to Ukraine,” Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland’s defence minister, told a Polish television channel, according to The Guardian.
Per The Guardian:
His Lithuanian counterpart, Laurynas Kasčiūnas, said his country may make similar efforts. “Ukraine is very short of mobilisation reserve … This is not fair to those citizens who are fighting for their country,” he said on Thursday.
Ukraine is struggling to overcome a huge equipment and personnel deficit in comparison with Russian troops at the frontline. The parliament has recently passed a new law on mobilisation, which lowers the age at which men can be called up from 27 to 25.
On Wednesday, the foreign ministry announced that it would suspend consular services for men subject to the draft who were living abroad. There were angry scenes at consular offices and agencies in Poland later in the day, where men who had booked appointments to pick up documents were told they could not do so.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, told the Guardian on Wednesday that it was unacceptable for Ukrainian men outside the country to “sit down in restaurants” while others were dying, and said the move was partly about demonstrating fairness to those who were at the front. “They don’t understand why the government is not trying to bring more people into the war effort,” he said.
Ukrainians don’t want to fight in the war. That’s why between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men of fighting age left for other countries.
Thanks to Speaker Johnson and other demon worshippers, these men will be kidnapped and sent back to die. pic.twitter.com/oiLTxzdlrD
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 29, 2024
WATCH:
As the US and NATO celebrate the $60 billion Ukraine package, a recent Sky News report shows how Ukrainians are desperately trying to escape conscription. pic.twitter.com/ezZro1eYs9
— Oddvin (@enterfx) April 22, 2024
From Reuters:
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.
