Young Ukrainians are travelling to neighboring countries by the thousands – Screengrab/Social media X.
Young men are running for their lives.
As the winter approaches in Ukraine – with the terrifying prospect of blackouts and power outages disrupting heating in homes – a huge number of young men are watching the tragedy unfold from safe places, far away from the war.
With the catastrophic number of dead and seriously injured, the ever-growing ‘army’ of deserters and the ghost citizens hiding in their houses from mobilization, the lack of troops has become the main problem affecting the Ukrainian war effort – even more than the lack of weapons, ammo, planes, drones and missiles.
To make things even worse, almost 100,000 fighting-age Ukrainian men have left the country in the past two months, after the Kiev regime eased departure rules for citizens between 18 and 22 years old.
The Telegraph reported:
“Poland’s border guard said 99,000 Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 22 had crossed the frontier – the primary route out of the country – since regulations to ensure that Kyiv had enough soldiers were relaxed at the end of August. In comparison, the entire British Army has around 70,000 personnel.”
Young Ukrainians want to avoid conscription at all costs.
Since the beginning of the war, martial law blocked Ukrainian men aged from 18 to 60 from leaving the country.
But, in the fourth year of fighting, Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky signed a new rule that permits Ukrainian men to travel abroad before they reach 23.
“The move was part of a shift in conscription policy, which lowered the age at which men were obliged to fight from 27 to 25 because of mounting concerns over manpower shortages on the front lines.
By granting young Ukrainians more freedoms to leave, it was hoped more would return and volunteer to fight at a later date.”
Lack of manpower has become Ukraine’s worst problem.
“Some 45,300 Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 22 entered Poland from January to just before the rule change at the end of August, according to Poland’s border guards. In the next two months, that number more than doubled to 98,500, or 1,600 a day.
In Germany, where Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, is attempting to crack down on lax migration rules, the number of Ukrainian men aged 18 to 22 arriving each week jumped from 19 to more than 1,000 by the middle of September.”
“They won’t come back.” MP Roman Kostenko criticized the permission for men aged 18–22 to travel abroad.
“Allowing guys aged 18–22 to go abroad is shooting yourself in the foot. I assure you, now everyone will leave and won’t come back”
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