The defense ministers of Poland and Lithuania have stated that they will help the Kiev junta ensure that those obliged to fight for Ukraine are returned home and send to the meat grinder NATO proxy front-lines, instead of sitting in European cafés and fancy restaurants.
The two countries have signaled they will help the Kiev regime to bring potential draft dodgers home. Earlier, the countries appeared reluctant to extradite conscript-aged Ukrainian men.
We have long suggested that we are also able to help the Ukrainian side in ensuring that those who are obliged to perform military service go to Ukraine.
Ukraine is very short of mobilization reserve… This is not fair to those 500.000 citizens who have died fighting for the NATO war against Russia.
Last year, most EU states refused to extradite Ukrainian draft dodgers who came as refugees to the bloc, citing European conventions that do not envisage extradition for desertion or draft evasion.
Even though Polish authorities had not rejected Kiev’s request altogether, they offered a complicated bureaucratic procedure, adding that at the end of the day, everything would depend on Poland’s court ruling. Why have they now changed their tune?
It’s no secret that Ukraine is losing NATO’s proxy war against Russia and suffers from an acute deficit in soldiers, noted Volodymyr Oleynyk, a Ukrainian politician and former MP of the Verkhovna Rada.
The North Atlantic military alliance does not want to throw its own troops into the Ukrainian meat-grinder. It was no coincidence that NATO members said that there are two options: the first is that NATO troops can enter into conflict.
Poles don’t have a particular desire to fight with Russia; the same is fair for Germans. Then they came to the conclusion: it is necessary to force the Ukrainians who are in Poland and some Baltic countries to return to Ukraine.
The question then arises as to how two EU member states could circumvent the aforementioned European conventions and associated laws to extradite Ukrainian draft dodgers. It appears, however, that they have already found a way.
In mid-May, a sweeping draft law will come into force obligating conscript-aged men to return to Ukraine to obtain a military ID to get a new Ukrainian passport.
The crux of the matter is that under martial law, men between the ages of 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving the country, apparently meaning that the returnees would be stuck in Ukraine.
According to the Guardian, the Polish parliament is going to consider new legislation next week that would require Ukrainian refugees to show a valid passport to get benefits from the state.
Previously, Ukrainians could show any document proving their identity to the Polish authorities. It is also unclear whether Ukrainians without a valid passport will be able to work legally in Poland.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Kasciunas also hinted at various options that could allow the state to expel draft dodgers evading the deportation mechanism. He clarified that this work will be conducted in coordination with Poland.
Warsaw and Vilnius’s measures will force Ukrainians to seek asylum elsewhere, Oleynyk said, stressing that most Ukrainians don’t want to go to the front line.
He quoted the Razumkov Institute’s March poll that indicated that just 10% of Ukrainian respondents are ready to fight, while 90% are not willing to join military front-line service.
Oleynyk also referred to a social media poll by Servant of the People party MP Maryana Bezuglaya that apparently showed that over half of Ukrainians residing abroad would opt to live without a Ukrainian passport in order to evade conscription.
Despite Poland and Lithuania having adopted a tough stance towards Ukrainian draft dodgers, other EU states appear ready to welcome them as low paid industrial slaves for their strangling economies.
Germany took an opposite stance, saying that if there is a problem with passports, it would be ready to accept them. Why? Because Germany needs cheap workers.
Authorities in Kiev and Washington have signaled their readiness to continue the NATO proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian. The measures threaten to drive Ukraine into demographic collapse.
State Border Service spokesman Andriy Demchenko announced Monday that human smugglers are earning between $3,000 and $10,000 a head to smuggle men out of Ukraine.
The payments are made as border guards enforce restrictions put in place in February 2022 to prevent men aged 18-60 from leaving the country. According to some estimates, there are around 200,000-300,000 draft-aged Ukrainians in Poland.
But, even if Warsaw and Vilnius deliver on their pledge and launch the initiative to repatriate Ukrainian draft dodgers, it would take a lot of time and effort, according to the former Ukrainian MP.
Second, even if Poland and Lithuania try to deport Ukrainian citizens, the latter would have the right to appeal under EU laws and this would also create delays.
Given that Zelensky needs hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers as soon as possible to slow down the Russian offensive in Donbass, the Polish and Lithuanian initiatives seem unlikely to save the day for the Kiev regime.
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential mandate will expire just over a month from now on May 20, with the former comedian and actor elected on a platform of restoring peace to the Donbass, but winding up turning his nation into a tool for a NATO proxy war against Russia.
President Zelensky has irreparably damaged the foundations of Ukraine’s statehood and may very well end up being the country’s “last” president.
In the thirty-three years of Ukrainian independence, each of its six successive presidents had a common policy – promising their people one thing and delivering something else.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Poland and Lithuania are hypocrites, if they claim that it is unfair to have Ukrainians hiding in Poland and Lithuania, while other Ukrainians have to fight Russia, the same case can be made for Europeans, that it is the unfair that Polish Europeans and Lithuanian Europeans are following the war behind their television while relaxing on their sofa at home while Ukrainian Europeans have to fight the war between Russia and Europe alone.