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  • They Came for the Music. They Left With Draft Officers for Ukraine’s Army.

    10/17/2024 9:45:32 PM PDT · by McGruff · 28 replies
    NY Times ^ | Oct 18, 2024 | Maria Varenikova
    Okean Elzy is one of the top bands in Ukraine. It has a kitschy, stadium rock style, and songs with patriotic themes that for decades have provided the soundtrack to anti-Russia protests. Tickets to its concerts are highly prized. But they suddenly became available after the first of three sold-out concerts in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Friday night. The reason? Draft officers and the police had waited outside the concert hall, looking for men trying to dodge military service in the country’s war with Russia. They asked men to see their draft papers and detained those who had not registered....
  • Ukrainian Recruiters Descend on Kyiv's Nightlife in Search of Men Not Registered for Conscription

    10/13/2024 7:21:55 AM PDT · by Navy Patriot · 20 replies
    Newsmax ^ | October 12, 2024 | Associated Presstitu...
    Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, local media reported Saturday. Officers reportedly descended on Kyiv’s Palace of Sports venue after a concert Friday night by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy. Video footage aired by local media outlets appears to show officers stationed outside the doors of the concert hall intercepting men as they exit. In the footage, officers appear to be forcibly detaining some men. It is unusual for such raids to take place in the capital, and reflects Ukraine’s dire...
  • Poland ready to help Ukraine to get military-age men back, minister says

    04/24/2024 1:40:51 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 81 replies
    Reuters ^ | 4/24/2024 | Reuters
    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...
  • Russia asked to explain how Zambian student jailed in Moscow wound up dead on Ukraine battlefield

    11/16/2022 4:13:24 AM PST · by canuck_conservative · 75 replies
    Reuters / National Post ^ | Nov. 15, 2022 | Chris Mfula
    The Zambian student was serving a jail sentence at a medium security prison on the outskirts of Moscow after being convicted of contravening Russian law, Kakubo said, without specifying the offense that occurred in April 2020. “The Zambian government has requested the Russian authorities to urgently provide information on the circumstances under which a Zambian citizen, serving a prison sentence in Moscow, could have been recruited to fight in Ukraine,” Kakubo said. It was not clear how the prisoner was recruited and by whom.... ussia’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of...