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Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military - official (www.bignewsnetwork.com)
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Kiev will conscript 160,000 more troops over the next three months, according to statements from lawmakers and media outlets. More than a million soldiers have already been drafted, yet high losses have left the Ukrainian Armed Forces plagued by manpower shortages.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces had around 250,000 active-duty personnel at the beginning of 2022, a number that rapidly swelled once Vladimir Zelensky called up reservists and forbade draft-age men from leaving the country.

This spring, faced with mounting losses, Kiev lowered the draft age from 27 to 25 and significantly tightened mobilization rules, requiring potential recruits to report to conscription offices for "data validation." These checks often result in people being immediately taken into the army and sent to the front line.

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[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Are people in Russian-occupied territories free to protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine? No. They would get put in prison, or worse. So they aren't free.

The only free people in this reality are billionaires. It's not about who is free, it is about who is more free. Are you trying to say that people on liberated territories are less free than people on Zelensky controlled territories because.. they can protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine? So the ability to protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine is more important than freedom of movement and not being kidnapped from the streets?

I do think Ukrainians should be allowed to leave Ukraine.

Well thank you at least for that (that's not even sarcasm btw, that's already more helpful than most of the world), but again - you support Zelensky's regime which is the one making it impossible.

But you seem to be blaming Zelenskyy for the Russian shells, being fired by Russian forces.

I blame him for turning Ukraine into his North Korea. I blame him for trapping people, who die trying to cross the border by mountains/rivers, or hide at homes afraid to leave. I blame him for kidnapping people from the streets and sending them to the meatgrinder (so, killing them).

For some reason you don't want to put any blame at all on the Kremlin - why is that?

Here it is: I condemn Kremlin, Russia, Putin and everybody else responsible for this war.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your mentions about North Korea are entirely baseless and fully in agreement with the likes like Zelensky and his US handlers.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have looked only at the name of the links and not the actual content (there are too many of them) - but I didn't notice anything about North Koreans being able to leave the country by means other than "illegally" crossing the border (this is the criterian I used to compare the countries)? If one of the links covers this topic I'd be interested in reading it.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean they have a grand total of 3 borders of which one is shoot to kill zone, and while they have to get passport and probably visa too they can go to China and Russia, though the numbers aren't that high afaik. This is the norm for cold war time in which they de facto still are thanks to the USA, and this is very far from what is currently happening in Ukraine, first and foremost there is no open war and they aren't send up into the meat grinder.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean they have a grand total of 3 borders of which one is shoot to kill zone, and while they have to get passport and probably visa too they can go to China and Russia, though the numbers aren't that high afaik.

So it's not a problem for North Koreans to obtain a passport and cross the border into China/Russia (and from there to any other country, of course provided that that country will let them in)? From what I've heard it's next to impossible, but if that's just western/American propaganda I'd like to read some articles and learn something new.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess it's probably as hard as let's say getting a permit to travel to western country for a citizen of socialist Ukrainian SSR, but even if they were literally welded to place it would still be nowhere near as bad as in Ukraine where the main problem is not being unable to leave but getting kidnapped and thrown into artillery fire. Again not in the slightest similar thing.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, I wasn't saying that NK kidnaps and massacres its citizens like Zelensky's regime does, I was referring to not being able to leave the country, and in that regard the regimes seems similar to me.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You wrote this, context is rather clear:

I blame him for turning Ukraine into his North Korea. I blame him for trapping people, who die trying to cross the border by mountains/rivers, or hide at homes afraid to leave. I blame him for kidnapping people from the streets and sending them to the meatgrinder (so, killing them).

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But what is the contradiction here? :)

In my mind North Korea associates with people being unable to leave it (which you don't deny), Zelensky did the same to Ukraine, therefore the analogy.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are comparing a western nazi puppet who has to be forcibly stopped from comitting genocide with a communist country desperately defending themselves from west for 80 years and being a victim of genocide. Those are polar opposites even if they have some things in common, like i bet people in both countries also drink water.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There can be no justification for mass forbidding people to leave the country.

country desperately defending themselves

This is exactly the same justification Zelensky is using. Both are wrong.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What no historical materialism does to a mfer.

Socialist countries in Europe also did restricted the freedom of travel and turned out for a good reason, to not be destroyed. Ukraine does this for a reason to murder its own people. You can't even get a difference so basic, you should really stop.

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, it seems that we won't come to an agreement here.

As I said, for me mass forbidding people to leave the country is unjustifiable. If some regime does it, whatever the reason, it deserves to be destroyed, and I wholeheartedly support the destruction of that regime. I wouldn't like to live under such a regime and wouldn't wish it for other people.

And yeah, I'm not going to stop caring about mine and other people's freedom :)