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In addition to conventional call-ups, conscription teams patrol public areas or stop cars on highways to draft eligible men into the army. Dozens of men have died and hundreds were caught when trying to illegally cross the border. Other are already abroad. Some don’t leave their apartments for weeks to dodge the draft.
The government decriminalized first-time desertion earlier this year in an effort to boost numbers ...
and they see nothing wrong with this; jesus christ!!! 🤦
Kozhemyako founded Khartiia, or Charter, as a group of volunteers during the chaotic early period of the war. He had quit a family skiing holiday in the Alps the day Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2002. The crop trader had spent more than two decades building up AgroTrade, a farming empire with a land bank almost as big as Singapore.
i wish i understood why ukrainians love our oligarchs so much when it's clear that they're causing our collapse.