{"id":2126830,"date":"2023-12-16T10:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T15:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-resorting-to-extremely-desperate-tactics-to-fill-its-military-ranks-report\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T15:45:38","slug":"ukraine-resorting-to-extremely-desperate-tactics-to-fill-its-military-ranks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-resorting-to-extremely-desperate-tactics-to-fill-its-military-ranks-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s Military Resorted to Desperate Tactics: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fukraine-resorting-to-extremely-desperate-tactics-to-fill-its-military-ranks-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2126830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Ukraine Resorting to \u2062Extremely Desperate Tactics to\u2062 Fill Its Military Ranks: Report<\/h2>\n<p>Those who support Ukraine unconditionally, ask yourself this question: Does it look good for the \u2064United States to be unashamedly and unabashedly on the side of a military allegedly forcing those\u2064 exempted from conscription \u2014 \u200cincluding mentally disabled individuals \u2014 \u2063to be conscripted at gunpoint?<\/p>\n<p>Because that \u200cis, according to a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/15\/world\/europe\/ukraine-military-recruitment.html?campaign_id=9&#038;emc=edit_nn_20231215&#038;instance_id=110227&#038;nl=the-morning&#038;regi_id=95765965&#038;segment_id=152673&#038;te=1&#038;user_id=a07568e206ed3d0ec37e3cc3c732fef8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New\u200b York Times<\/a> report, exactly what \u200dthe Ukrainian military is doing.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest dispatch confirming \u2063what we were all forbidden from\u2064 saying in the months following \u2062Russia\u2019s\u200c February 2022 invasion\u200c of its \u2064neighbor \u2014 that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/top-zelenskyy-adviser-admits-truth-corruption-ukraine-people-stealing-like-no-tomorrow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">government in\u200b Kyiv<\/a> was likely \u2062to lose a war of attrition and, while it might not be as corrupt or malevolent as Vladimir\u200c Putin\u2019s regime, was\u200b still awfully\u200d corrupt and occasionally malevolent \u2014 the Times\u2019 Thomas Gibbons-Neff reported on\u200c what locals describe as \u201cpeople snatchers,\u201d Ukrainian military recruiters who, in what may be the understatement\u200b of the year,\u200d are getting \u2062\u201cincreasingly aggressive in their efforts to replenish\u2062 the ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecruiters have confiscated passports, taken people from their jobs and,\u2064 in at least \u200cone case, tried to send \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whistleblower-democrats-stole-votes-for-joe-biden-from-every-developmentally-disabled-person-in-milwaukee-homes-she-spoke-with\/\" title=\"Whistleblower: Democrats Stole Votes for Joe Biden from Every Developmentally Disabled Person in Milwaukee Homes She Spoke With\">mentally disabled person<\/a> \u200dto military training, according to lawyers, activists and Ukrainian\u2062 men \u200dwho have \u200cbeen subject\u2064 to coercive tactics,\u201d Gibbons-Neff wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVideos of soldiers \u2063shoving people into cars and holding\u2064 men against their will in recruiting centers \u2064are surfacing with increasing frequency on \u2062social media \u2063and\u2063 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/warnock-voter-registration-group-under-investigation-for-election-law-violations\/\" title=\"Warnock Voter-Registration Group Under Investigation for Election Law Violations\">local news reports<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You know, \u200cvideos like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">  A future AFU soldier\u200b tried to \u2064escape\u200d from \u2063Lviv military officers but\u200c was caught up.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in\u2064 Novoiavorivsk, Ukraine where\u2064 several officers first twisted him, \u200dand when he\u2063 tried to run away, they caught up with him &#038; shoved him into a service car. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MiksiXXji\">pic.twitter.com\/0MiksiXXji<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Astra MK (@TONYK619) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TONYK619\/status\/1681392269256167424?\">July 18, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Really? \u200bTell me what do\u200d you think of FORCED RECRUITING FOR THE\u201dGLORIOUS UKRAINE ARMY\u201d one happened in ODESSA\u2064 With his family in the car\u2063 the other\u2064 one west to\u200b buy food and got shoved into a van <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wdlFESBJA2\">pic.twitter.com\/wdlFESBJA2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Black Lion (@otello2011) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/otello2011\/status\/1678177220995567618?\">July \u20649,\u2062 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While some of these videos no doubt come from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/twitter-ceo-found-sharing-russian-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russian propaganda mills<\/a> still extant on social media, the Times\u2063 is\u2063 hardly a shill for Moscow \u2014 and the Friday \u200dreport lends an imprimatur of\u200b fact to \u200dthe uncomfortable truth. After all, if one of the chief cheering sections of the \u2063American left is forced to\u200c admit \u2062what Ukraine war skeptics on the right have been \u200bclaiming for quite some time now, it\u2019s hard to deny the claims are based in reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawyers and activists say the aggressive methods go well beyond the scope of recruiters\u2019 authority and\u2064 in some \u200dcases are illegal,\u201d Gibbons-Neff reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey point\u2064 out that recruiters,\u200b unlike law enforcement officers, are not empowered to detain civilians,\u2062 let \u200dalone force them into conscription. Men who receive draft\u200b notices are \u2062supposed to report to recruitment offices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While \u200dthis has \u201cled to a number of court cases this fall \u200das men\u2063 challenge \u2062what they claim\u2064 are wrongful draft notices, unprofessional medical commissions and forced mobilization,\u201d \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-yells-press-hush-second-tells-zelenskyy-got-200-million-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> has been under martial law since the 2022 \u200dinvasion, which has led to what Gibbons-Neff referred to as\u2062 \u201ca subjective\u200b interpretation \u2014\u200c and abuse \u2014 of\u2063 conscription laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Take the case of\u200d Dmytro Yefimenko, a 34-year-old shop owner. After breaking his arm earlier this year, he believed\u2063 he had \u200ca medical exemption. That didn\u2019t\u2062 matter \u2064to authorities, who reportedly took him at gunpoint to a recruitment center after he was stopped \u200cat a checkpoint. After a \u2063brief medical examination, he was detained there, but\u200c managed to sneak away during the overnight hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any explanation, without documents, without reasons, an armed \u200cman \u2062got into my car and forced me to drive\u2063 to the military recruiting center,\u201d Yefimenko told \u2064the Times.<\/p>\n<p>Exams since \u200dthe incident have confirmed that Yefimenko is medically exempt.<\/p>\n<p>However, his case underlines the problem for Ukraine: \u200cWhile its military has fought Russia valiantly, it\u2019s still had \u200bto face troop replenishment issues against\u200d a foe that has a population about three times bigger than its own.<\/p>\n<p>American estimates indicate that Ukraine has sustained roughly\u2062 150,000 casualties thus \u2063far. Russian numbers are higher, but Russia is also drawing from a much larger pool. Furthermore, the patriotic fervor of the early war days is wearing off. In those days, Ukrainian men \u200bof draft age rushed to be conscripted. \u200bNow, they\u2019re avoiding\u2064 the draft \u2014 and using predictably \u2062unsavory tactics to\u200c do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile\u200c some believe that \u2064high casualty numbers are partially to blame for aggressive\u2063 conscription tactics, others point to a different reason: \u200dmany Ukrainian \u2064men\u200b have either fled or \u200cbribed their way out of the draft, leaving a shrinking\u200c pool of conscripts, some of whom are supposed to be exempt from mobilization,\u201d Gibbons-Neff reported.<\/p>\n<p>Wait \u200b\u2014 I \u2063thought we were supposed to\u200c believe that the moment Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy took office, he started throwing the corrupt bastards out, no? Sure, Kyiv\u2063 <em>used<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/email-hidden-5-years-declared-hunter-biden-undercut-us-efforts-fight-ukraine-corruption-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to \u2063be a hive \u200dof venality<\/a>, but no \u2064longer,\u200d thanks to this brave actor-turned-politician. Give him your dollars, \u2063America! Give him your dollars, NATO! \u200bNone of it could possibly be \u2062diverted into corrupt hands.<\/p>\n<p>Again, \u2063no: Those who can are able to bribe their way out of service if they wish \u2063to. \u201cAndrii Semaka, a soldier who \u200cin the early\u2063 months of the \u200bwar worked in the \u200bVyzhnytsia recruiting center, said his office would bring in 15 to 20 potential conscripts a day,\u201d the Times reported.\u200b \u201cRoughly\u200d a quarter of them, he said, would bribe his superior, \u2063who remains in charge of\u2063 the center, \u2063offering around $1,000 \u200bdollars to avoid being drafted. That price \u200chas only gone up since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation\u2064 is bad enough\u2064 that one \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ukrainian-flight-commander-defects-russia-claims-kyiv-issues-hasty-denial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyiv<\/a> lawyer, requesting anonymity,\u200b called it \u201ca war for poor people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granted, one could make this claim about any elongated, unpopular conflict that relies \u2062heavily\u200c on conscription. (See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/know-vietnam-war-protest-heart-college-football-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vietnam, American involvement in<\/a>.) However, it\u2019s difficult to keep pumping unlimited, unchecked \u2064amounts of Western money into what\u2019s being billed as Ukraine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-was-entirely-created-by-russia-putin-rewrote-history-in-angry-speech\/\" title=\"\u2018Ukraine Was Entirely Created By Russia\u2019: Putin Rewrote History In Angry Speech\">great patriotic war<\/a>\u200b if \u2064the people who are fighting it aren\u2019t terribly\u2064 patriotic about it.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy \u200dhas \u200cpromised\u2062 to change the conscription system to crack down on corruption, although \u2014 aside from the August firing \u2063of 24 regional chiefs of recruitment amid bribery allegations \u2014 he hasn\u2019t done anything terribly specific to stop it. Firing\u2064 chiefs won\u2019t do much, Ukrainian \u2063critics \u2063of the \u2062conscription system said,\u200c because that didn\u2019t replace the rotten\u2062 structure \u200dbeneath the rotten chiefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing has changed\u200c \u2014 quite the opposite, because they have tasks to send a certain number of\u200d guys\u2062 to\u200b the front, and they\u200c catch everyone they \u200ccan,\u201d said Tetiana Fefchak, a lawyer who represents men challenging the government in conscription matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople snatchers\u201d who \u201ccatch everyone they can\u201d and force them into military service. This sounds like something out of \u200cVoltaire\u2019s \u201cCandide,\u201d not a valiant cause that Americans should \u200cbe backing, whatever the cost. Yes, obviously\u200c one who values international legal norms, human rights, and a sound world order should \u200dprefer Kyiv to Moscow, but this is scarcely a choice to be made without any\u200d hesitancy.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty years ago,\u2063 one who values those same things should have also\u2062 supported \u2062South Vietnam\u2062 over North Vietnam,\u2063 after all. It didn\u2019t take long, however, for Americans to realize the perils of\u2063 cosigning an ally\u2019s cause at any cost. Sadly, Washington, \u200bD.C., remains \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desperate-white-house-set-argue-ukraine-aid-good-helps-us-defense-companies-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blissfully ignorant of history<\/a> and continues to amble \u200dinto an unwinnable trap which condemns\u200c us to repeat those \u2063ugly lessons.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ukraine-resorting-extremely-desperate-tactics-fill-military-ranks-report\/\">Ukraine Resorting to Extremely Desperate Tactics to Fill Its \u2062Military Ranks: Report<\/a> appeared first on \u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What evidence\u200c supports the claims that Ukrainian recruiters are using coercion and \u200cforce to conscript individuals, including those \u2062with mental disabilities?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ukraine Resorting \u2062to Extensively \u2063Desperate Tactics to Fill Its Military Ranks: Report<\/p>\n<p>Those who unconditionally support\u2062 Ukraine must reflect upon the current situation. Is it appealing \u200bfor the\u200c United States\u2062 to openly and unashamedly support a military that is allegedly using force \u200bto recruit individuals who are exempt \u200bfrom conscription, including those with mental disabilities?<\/p>\n<p>According to a recent report by The New York Times, this is precisely what the Ukrainian military is doing. The Times&#8217; Thomas Gibbons-Neff reported on the increasing aggression of Ukrainian military \u2063recruiters, referred to as \u200b&#8221;people snatchers&#8221; by locals. These recruiters have\u2064 been confiscating passports, forcibly taking people from their \u2063jobs, and even \u2062attempting \u200bto conscript mentally disabled individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulating on social media and in local news reports \u2064show soldiers forcefully putting \u200dpeople into \u200bcars and detaining men against their will in\u200b recruiting centers. While some of \u2062these videos may\u200b come from Russian\u200d propaganda mills, the credibility of The New York Times gives validity to these claims. Thus, it becomes difficult to deny that these desperate recruitment\u200b tactics based on coercion are indeed occurring.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers and activists have argued \u200dthat these methods not only exceed \u2062the authority of recruiters but are also \u200dillegal. Recruiters do\u2064 not\u2062 possess the power to\u200d detain civilians or forcefully conscript them, unlike law enforcement\u200d officers. Men who receive draft notices\u200d are expected to report to recruitment offices voluntarily.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ukraine has been under martial law since the Russian invasion \u200cin 2022, leading to a subjective interpretation and abuse \u2063of conscription\u2062 laws. This has resulted\u200d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-exclusive-accurate-list-of-2020-election-fraud-cases-shows-81-cases-total-30-still-active-and-not-one-single-court-has-allowed-evidence-to-be-argued\/\" title=\"BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Accurate List of 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 81 Cases Total, 30 Still Active \u2013 And NOT ONE SINGLE COURT Has Allowed Evidence to be Argued\">numerous court cases<\/a> where men \u200cchallenge wrongful draft notices, unprofessional medical examinations, and forced mobilization.<\/p>\n<p>One \u200ccase exemplifying this issue is that\u200b of Dmytro Yefimenko, a 34-year-old shop owner. Despite believing he had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/novak-djokovic-wins-court-appeal-to-remain-in-australia-government-threatens-to-cancel-visa-a-second-time\/\" title=\"Novak Djokovic Wins Court Appeal To Remain In Australia, Government Threatens To Cancel Visa A Second Time\">medical exemption due<\/a> to a \u200cbroken arm, authorities forcefully took him \u200cto a recruitment center at gunpoint when \u2062he was stopped \u2063at a checkpoint. He was detained there after \u200ba brief medical examination but managed \u2062to escape during the night. Subsequent examinations confirmed his medical exemption status.<\/p>\n<p>This case underscores Ukraine&#8217;s problem in replenishing its military ranks. While Ukraine has valiantly fought Russia, it faces challenges in recruiting new troops\u200c due to Russia&#8217;s much larger population. American estimates suggest \u2062that Ukraine has suffered around 150,000 casualties\u2062 thus far. Although Russia&#8217;s numbers are \u2064higher, it\u200b has a \u200dlarger pool from which to draw. Additionally, the initial patriotic fervor\u200c has waned, leading to Ukrainian men avoiding the draft through unsavory means.<\/p>\n<p>Some attribute \u2064the conscription tactics to the high number of casualties, while others claim it is due to \u200dan increasing\u200d number of men evading or bribing their way out of the draft. The\u200b issue has become severe enough that a Kyiv lawyer \u200cdescribed it as a &#8220;war for\u200c poor people.&#8221;\u200c Even those who previously believed that Ukraine had eradicated corruption have come \u200cto realize that bribery remains a prominent factor. Men would\u200d bribe superiors with around $1,000 to evade conscription.<\/p>\n<p>This situation poses a significant obstacle for Ukraine, as\u200d it cannot sustain an elongated, unpopular conflict that relies heavily\u2062 on conscription, particularly if\u2063 the soldiers are not\u2064 genuinely patriotic about the war. The influx \u2062of Western money into Ukraine&#8217;s\u2062 war \u2064efforts may \u200bnot be \u2062effective if the \u2063soldiers lack genuine motivation and support.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the report by\u200c The New\u200d York Times sheds \u200clight on the desperate and coercive tactics used by the \u2062Ukrainian military to \u200cfill its ranks.\u200c While Ukraine deserves support, it is crucial to address these issues and find \u200ba \u2063viable solution \u200bthat ensures transparency, legality, and genuine motivation among the soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of Ukraine, consider this: Is it favorable for the US to openly support a military accused of forcefully conscripting individuals, including the mentally disabled, at gunpoint? 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