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In Ukraine, a growing resistance to military enlistment
Le Monde ^ | April 7, 2023 | Thomas d’Istria

Posted on 05/20/2023 7:33:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

As the government seeks to create eight new brigades, potential recruits are seeking to avoid joining the armed forces.

It would be almost possible to forget the war in the streets of Kyiv. More than a year after the outbreak of the invasion, the Ukrainian capital and the cities around it have returned to a semblance of normality. Today, one of the markers of the fighting in the country is on the walls and entrances of cities in the form of a recruitment campaign to join the armed forces. These posters, which display portraits of soldiers with determined faces, call on citizens to enlist to defend the country. One of the war effort operations, which has been run by the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior since early February, aims to create eight new brigades.

The project, whose recruitment process is coming to an end, has the objective of "strengthening the Ukrainian forces," explained the deputy minister of the interior, Kateryna Pavlichenko. In her office, one of the walls is decorated with a portrait of the Ukrainian poet Lessia Oukraïnka (1871-1913) with a flashy pink inscription, "Women's power." Composed of different profiles of volunteers who went through a "very demanding selection process," the brigades also aim to meet the demand of the "current period," said the deputy minister on Wednesday, March 29.

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1 posted on 05/20/2023 7:33:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

At this point Ukraine can forget getting any more volunteers. Who want to volunteer for almost certain death in a war they have no hope of winning? What’s Zelensky gonna do force them all to serve at gunpoint?


2 posted on 05/20/2023 7:45:29 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: MinorityRepublican

I thought a ton of people had already fled the country, to avoid military service. How is that any different?


3 posted on 05/20/2023 7:45:47 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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So is the Ukraine winning the war? Are all the hard worked to get taxpayer funds from the crashing economy from the US going to waste? Are you going to believe a media that has lied to you so many times that they can’t keep up with the mistruths to say the same thing twice? This is how crooked politicians make their dollars...con game.

And when the Ukraine boots, among others, are on the ground while others are trying to escape from them, do you feel charitable? Are you liberal or conservative? Does it make any difference on this topic? Both sides lose. And you foot the bill with funds, equipment, arms, and people while the ones that are doing it are in Japan eating sushi flying your private plane. Hardly seems fair does it? Or intelligent.

wy69


4 posted on 05/20/2023 7:46:36 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: jimwatx

Yeah, this is quite the crock of ...


5 posted on 05/20/2023 7:52:50 PM PDT by Bogie
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6 posted on 05/20/2023 7:53:05 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: whitney69

Well said indeed.


7 posted on 05/20/2023 7:56:12 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: MinorityRepublican

The NWO needs to kill all the men of Ukraine to confiscate the land. That is what the Russian provocation is about


8 posted on 05/20/2023 7:56:28 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Plus there’s rumors that Zaluzhny is missing his legs and in a Kiev hospital


9 posted on 05/20/2023 8:03:04 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Mount Athos

ROFL


10 posted on 05/20/2023 8:24:54 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Jan_Sobieski

That sounds more like the Russian’s plan.


11 posted on 05/20/2023 8:31:21 PM PDT by Salohcin
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To: MinorityRepublican

The war is brutal.

One thing the Russians do right is to saturate an area with artillery fire.

The infantry weapons both sides use are highly effective.


12 posted on 05/20/2023 8:40:24 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Even if Ukraine wanted to have peace talks they are not allowed to, according to high princess Ursula Von Der Leyen. Graham was right, "to the last man". There is your "democracy" Ukrains fans.

Title is a little out of context.


13 posted on 05/20/2023 9:23:04 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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"What’s Zelensky gonna do force them all to serve at gunpoint?"

They've certainly been trying to do just that. Ukrainian press gangs....

14 posted on 05/20/2023 10:29:50 PM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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call on citizens to enlist to defend the country
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Why would they want to do that when America will further be drawn into this mess and shed the precious blood and lives of the young people serving in the military…


15 posted on 05/21/2023 1:49:45 AM PDT by Skybird
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To: jimwatx

The Russians, thankfully, have started to figure out how to win.


16 posted on 05/21/2023 4:13:37 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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They ain’t winning - but the money laundering scheme requires blood to continue...


17 posted on 05/21/2023 5:01:56 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Potential recruits are seeking to avoid joining the armed forces.

Kenny Rogers song on in the back ground Know When To Fold em.


18 posted on 05/21/2023 9:35:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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“These posters, which display portraits of soldiers with determined faces, call on citizens to enlist to defend the country.”

I’m not much of a defender of Ukraine, but at least they’re not advertising Drag Shows to get people to enlist, like a certain North American country is likely now doing.


19 posted on 05/21/2023 10:10:31 AM PDT by BobL
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