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⚡ 🇺🇦 In Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine the whole village, including elderly women, got into a fistfight with Ukrainian military enlistment officers.
Ukraine’s parliament recently strengthened laws on forced mobilization.
People are literally kidnapped in the streets… pic.twitter.com/ZCmNQRGRek
— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) February 11, 2024
This is how mobilization happens in Ukraine.
Scholz, Macron, Sunak again repeat “we must be prepared for war with Russia.”
Ready? Relax, the “competent” government officials will take you to the meat grinder themselves. pic.twitter.com/D2u5E5Iiml
— Mari (@mari35285) February 10, 2024
‼️🇺🇦🪖 Another example of #Zelensky‘s “democratic” mobilization methods in Kharkov. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/xbSkYhc7Rn
— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) February 13, 2024
Mobilization in Ukraine. He went out into the courtyard of the house and did not return. Meat for Avdiivka. https://t.co/e6CV3lPbAC pic.twitter.com/HaThsHoWae
— Victor vicktop55 (@vicktop55) February 13, 2024
If the Ukraine had any desire at all to continue being a country, they would immediately surrender to Russia, and beg the Russians to allow them to keep the line where it currently is.
Instead, the Ukraine is saying they’re going to build an entire new army on the fly and invade and conquer huge parts of southern Russia.
They are going to make these conquests by switching to a “total defensive mode.”
This is all insane. It doesn’t make any basic sense.
Ukraine’s leading business associations are calling for changes to be made to draft legislation that would overhaul the process for mobilising troops, saying the reforms could deal a blow to the already embattled economy.
Lawmakers are due to discuss the bill to tighten rules on mobilization in a second and final reading this month.
Two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, the issue is highly sensitive for the army, business community and wider public.
“Business asks the parliament not to paralyse the country’s economy with the new mobilisation legislation,” the European Business Association, which unites about 1,000 companies, said in a statement. “A balance is needed between the military front and the economy.”
Businesses’ concerns range from export sectors and those supplying the army wanting to avoid loss of staff to such issues as call-ups being made online and civilian vehicles being commandeered in a disorderly way.
The array of issues raised illustrates the tightrope the government must walk as it seeks to replenish battlefield manpower while protecting the fragile economy, which contracted by a third in 2022 before making a recovery last year.
Ukrainian authorities acted to tighten the rules on drafting civilians into the army late last year as the fighting in the war showed no sign of letting up and it was clear that a much smaller pool of volunteer fighters was available.
There haven’t been any volunteers in a long, long time.
They’ve been press-ganging little boys and old men to feed into the meat grinder for at least a year.
The only real option left is to draft women. There just aren’t any other people. Every man who isn’t dead fled the country.
Zelensky has demanded Europe send back the Ukrainian men who escaped, but that is not really realistic.
But even if you had half a million men, what are you going to do with them? You’re going to turn them into a military in a few weeks? The men who got slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands in the “counteroffensive” had been trained for months by Americans and Germans.
This is not real. None of this shit is real. The war is over.
🇺🇦Mobilization in “democratic” ukraine. pic.twitter.com/4ftRsz0o83
— Tibo91 (@Tibortibor15) February 13, 2024
Mobilization in Ukraine is becoming increasingly difficult. pic.twitter.com/u8B5TdPPzI
— Rybar Force (@rybar_force) February 11, 2024
“Voluntary mobilization” is NOT in full swing in Ukraine
Reaction to a mobilization officer of the TCC, who came to mobilize Transcarpathians
“No matter how much you deny it, no matter how much you shift responsibility to Zelensky and “vlada”, YOU will remain the butcher.” pic.twitter.com/fpVnXbnHbg
— cvetko35 (@cvetko35) February 16, 2024
Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article.