Resistance To Conscription To The Front Is Growing In Ukraine.
The brutal methods used by Ukrainian conscription centers, which often violently abduct men on the streets, on public transport or in shopping centers to take them to the front, have been documented thousands of times in videos from all over Ukraine. Nevertheless, Western media do not report on this because it would disrupt the desired image of highly motivated Ukrainians fighting against Russia.
Resistance to forced mobilization has been growing in Ukraine recently, and attacks on buildings and cars at conscription centers have been reported more frequently. The Russian news agency has compiled a list of reports of resistance from Ukraine, and I have translated the
TASS article.
Arson attacks on vehicles, murders and attempted bribery: How mobilization is progressing in Ukraine.
The two months of enhanced mobilization in Ukraine, announced on May 18, have been marked by an increase in arson attacks on vehicles of territorial conscription centers and the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as attempts to leave the country and evade conscription.
The resistance to the Ukrainian regime has noted increased levels of brutality by security forces in attempts to mobilise civilians into the Ukrainian armed forces, while local residents have reported cases of Ukrainian soldiers killing conscientious objectors.
TASS has compiled the most important information on this topic.
Hard methods.
The territorial conscription centers in Ukraine have become noticeably tougher since they started cooperating with the police, the underground organization "Dosor" told TASS. The presence of a government representative who supports the kidnappings has led to more active actions by individual conscription center employees.
"Recently, the Resistance Center was contacted by Ukrainians who had just been mobilized for war. We receive information from them about the quality of the mobilized citizens. Of the total number of mobilized citizens, the lion's share is made up of older and fairly young men," said the TASS interlocutor.
Last week, Odessa residents tried to prevent police from arresting a man near the Privoz market. During the confrontation, a police officer fired a warning shot into the air and used tear gas on one of the women.
A resident of the city of Toretsk, who was rescued by Russian troops, told TASS that Ukrainian troops had fired at local men for refusing to fight on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces. "A neighbor ran in and shouted that someone had been killed.
It turned out that his son had been killed. Ukrainian soldiers came to the basement where he was hiding with his son, the man was about 40 years old. They asked him why he was not fighting. Then they dragged him outside, stripped him, beat him and shot him. And all this in front of the old father," the woman said.
According to her, this was not the first murder in the city that was due to the refusal of compulsory mobilization.
Arson attacks on military vehicles.
Cases of arson attacks on vehicles of conscription centers and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have increased in Ukraine, which indicates the resistance of residents to the current regime, the underground organization "Dosor" told TASS. "In the future, we only expect an increase in our activism, as the anger of the people is growing every day," the TASS interlocutor said.
On the night of July 21, unknown assailants set fire to several military vehicles in Kiev. This was reported by the portal “Strana”, which published a video of the burning vehicles.
Last week, media reported on arson of vehicles in Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Dnieper, Rovno and Lviv. In Odessa, where resistance to forced mobilization is also increasing, vehicles from conscription centers are being burned en masse.
corruption
According to a study by the Strana portal, the tightening of mobilization regulations in Ukraine has led to a sharp increase in demand for illegal border crossings and the corresponding prices.
While in the fall of 2023 it was still possible to negotiate with smugglers for $1,000-2,000 in the "budget option" or $3,000-5,000 in a relatively comfortable format with car transfer, prices have now risen to $7,000-8,000 and $10,000-12,000, respectively. Potential cross-border workers have to wait up to a month or more after making an advance payment, as demand exceeds supply. According to Strana, "we are talking about at least hundreds of people a day."
Dmitry Natalukha, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee for Economic Development, had previously stated that conscientious objectors pay up to two billion dollars in bribes annually to avoid going to the front.
Missing millions.
The number of officially employed Ukrainians fell by 2.5 million to nine million in 2023 compared to 2021, the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy said.
At the end of April, the European Business Association published the results of a survey, according to which 74 percent of companies in Ukraine are currently suffering from a lack of necessary specialists, while another 17 percent of business representatives are partially faced with this problem. The problem is most acute in areas where the majority of employees are men.
At the same time, Natalucha noted that almost 600,000 men of military age in the country are protected from conscription. The committee chairman added that there are currently about 2.62 million officially employed men of military age in Ukraine.
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