Posted on 04/24/2024 1:40:51 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Poland is ready to help Ukraine in getting military-age male citizens to return and help their home country in fighting in the war against Russia, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian government announced rules on Wednesday under which passports for military-age men can be issued only inside the country instead of foreign diplomatic missions.
As a result, men aged between 18 and 59 living abroad will be unable to renew expiring passports or obtain new ones.
Poland has suggested in the past helping Ukraine so that those who are subject to military service go back to their country to fulfill their civic obligation, Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polsat News television.
"I think many Poles are outraged when they see young Ukrainian men in hotels and cafes, and they hear how much effort we have to make to help Ukraine," he said, without giving any details on how Poland will help.
Some 4.3 million Ukrainians are living in European Union countries as of January, 2024, of whom about 860,000 are adult men, the Eurostat database estimates. Poland has granted temporary protection status to 950,000 Ukrainians, the second-largest number after Germany.
"Any support is possible," Kosiniak-Kamysz said about how Poland would respond if Kyiv asked for help in bringing home those who may lose their right to stay in Poland once their passports expire.
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How many Ukes made it into the USA, and will we now also send them home? Maybe they can carry the bags o’ cash with them.
I guess slavery is alive and well in Ukraine. Your body belongs to the state
Thank you, and you would have been correct, but,
as we are now older and hopefully somewhat wiser, we can recognize a much wider range of the (hate to use the word) paradigm.
You one sick bastard.
Do work for Mitch McConnell? You're every bit the POS he is.
They're white and might vote Republican so Biden probably will.
Now, we and NATO are equivalent of the Soviets and communists. We're the aggressors and we're starting wars and rumors of war so our elite, the defense industry and oligarchs can make $$$.
We had what? 1/3 of a million troops in Germany during the Vietnam war era? 400,000? It was a number in that range, and all armor and heavy/mechanized infantry plus support troops. That’s a serious force.
Poland’s not stupid. The fewer Ukrainian males that remain alive the easier it will be for Poland to regain the parts of Ukraine that were taken from Poland.
It will be interesting to see the new international borders that will enclose the new RUMP STATE of UKRAINE. Ukrainians, you can thank Victoria Nuland, her comrades in the US DemocRAT Party, the European Union’s bureaucracy and various Neocons and globalists for that impending outcome. Besides, the Polish language is close enough to Ukrainian so that any ethnic Ukrainians remaining in the new Polish lands will be able to adjust.
Sorry, that is total bullshiite.
Getting to America and your passport expires means you’re an illegal alien with no rights here who can and should be deported to wherever you came from.
Anything else is pure asinine leftist idiocy.
I don’t blame Poland for wanting to kick out filthy slavs.
Russia rape their draft dodgers before sending them to the front. Have a talk with your people. It’s not a good look.
Yep, lots of people, Russia and North Korea both required high levels of force and readiness during the Vietnam War and of course the numbers here and on the oceans.
I’m seeing 304,000 in 1967, 265,000 in Europe in 1970 and 350,000 in 1980 but most of our troops were in America.
Speak for yourself, you like draft dodgers, fine, it isn’t a surprise.
This is exactly what ran accross my mind. I like how they say expelling draft eligible Ukrainians as ‘support.’
But I thought ALL MILITARY AGE UKIES Wanted to fight the Ruzzians.
Yet, tens of thousands have fled Zeeperland.
Fresh new meat for Ruzzian Meat Grinder.
Many of these Ukes got out of there prior to a war actually beginning. There were only rumors of war.
Many are technically not draft dodgers.
What we had in Viet Nam, however dubious it was, was SEATO of which the US and Viet Nam were members. Ukraine does not have that distinction for NATO, as a member or official aspirant - EVER, before the RUS invasion.
I knew a guy who was drafted during Vietnam.
He told me that they told his boot camp class that about 10% of them would be going to Vietnam after training.
After training, every last one of the guys in his group went to Vietnam, every one.
“Poland to regain the parts of Ukraine that were taken from Poland”
Several Countries want a Piece of Zeeperland.
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