Die Ukraine setzt im Zuge der Einberufungsinitiative konsularische Dienste für Männer im wehrfähigen Alter aus

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   Summary

   * Ukraine is overhauling way it mobilises civilians
   * Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men are abroad
   * Manpower is seen as a key battlefield challenge for Kyiv

   KYIV, April 23 (Reuters) – Ukraine on Tuesday suspended consular services for military-age men abroad except ones to help them return to their home country, dramatically stepping up its effort to boost conscription in the war against Russia.

   Hundreds of thousands of military-age Ukrainian men are living abroad and the country faces an acute shortage of troops against a larger, better-equipped enemy nearly 26 months since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

   Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement that he had ordered measures to be taken to restore what he described as fair treatment for men of mobilisation age.

   “How it looks like now: a man of conscription age went abroad, showed his state that he does not care about its survival, and then comes and wants to receive services from this state,” he said on X.

   “It does not work this way. Our country is at war.”

   Kuleba said the foreign ministry would clarify the procedure for military-age men to obtain consular services soon.

   “Staying abroad does not relieve a citizen of his or her duties to the homeland,” Kuleba said.

   Some 4.3 million Ukrainians were living in European Union countries as of January, 2024, of whom about 860,000 are adult men, the Eurostat database estimated.

   Ukraine imposed martial law at the start of the full-scale war, banning men aged 18 to 60 from travelling abroad without special dispensation and beginning a rolling mobilisation of civilian men into the armed forces.
   A Ukrainian man living in Warsaw, who asked not to be named, told Reuters by telephone he thought the suspension would alienate citizens loyal to Kyiv.

   Another Ukrainian, 21-year-old Anatoly Nezgoduk, who is studying in Canada, said: “I understand very well that there is a war in our country, so I can’t call this move weird, illegal or incorrect. In a way, this distances me from Ukraine’s official representation abroad.”

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   Some military analysts say the shortage of manpower is Ukraine’s most significant battlefield weakness. It also faces an acute lack of artillery shells, although Kyiv hopes U.S. military aid will replenish its stocks soon.
   There have been numerous cases of draft dodgers trying to flee the country. The border guard service said it had detained eight men trying to cross into Hungary illegally on Tuesday.

   The state passport service said the issuance of ready-made passports had also been suspended for “technical reasons” for all citizens abroad expect children under the age of 12.

   A foreign ministry helpline said the suspension of consular services would remain in place until clarification on how to implement the new law overhauling the way the mobilisation effort is conducted.

   The law, which comes into effect next month, aims to improve and speed up the way the military mobilises civilians into the armed force.

   The law will require all military-age men to report to draft offices to update their papers, remotely or in person within 60 days. Military-age men abroad would need those papers to receive consular services.

   Volodymyr Fesenko, a Kyiv-based political analyst, predicted the suspension of consular services would not be a very efficient way to get people to update their personal data for military papers.

   “But sooner or later many men will have to choose whether they will confirm their Ukrainian citizenship. Some part of people will delay, they will use corrupt ways and consular services abroad will earn good money on it,” he said.

2. The full manifestation of male privilege. Become stateless or perish in combat.

3. The people creating these laws also happen to be the ones who aren’t being sent to the meat grinder. Funny.

4. So now we’re gonna have a bunch of Ukrainian refugees everywhere because those people aren’t going to be happily marching back into Ukraine so they can die.

5. It’s wild to me how some people will frame this shit as “wow, it’s so cruel that Ukraine is forcing these men to fight!” as if Ukraine started the fucking war

6. Renounce citizenship forever or be drafted no one gets to dodge for free

7. The border of Ukraine is littered with empty vehicles after men abandoned them while sneaking out of the country.

8. They’re are living lavish lives all across Europe some of them. I see Ukrainian luxury care everywhere in some parts of Bucharest. Apart from running away while others are dying for their freedom, they took everything they could to be living like kings. Pathetic and disgraceful.

9. DRAFT WOMEN! EQUALITY 🟰

10. Does Ukraine not have prisons they can mobilize?

11. Effectively forcing Ukrainians abroad to become stateless or fight…I wonder after seeing the survey of 77% of young Taiwan people willing to fight for their country what Ukraine’s % abroad would look like.

12. It’s a carefully calculated half-measure.
    Consular services for Ukrainians in the EU (where most of the refugees landed one way or another) aren’t that… vital most of the time. It’s a symbolic gesture, yet ultimately a minor inconvenience.

    If they *really* wanted to go balls to the wall, they’d went for bank accounts. Something easy like “you need to actualize your data in person or your account gets severely limited”. This one would actually hurt, and, possibly, force someone back. At the end of the day, though, it would mean some mass exodus from Ukrainian taxation.

13. Uhhhh…. MUCH PRIVILEGE. SO PATRIARCHY. Haha.

14. The satanic meat grinder craves more flesh and blood sacrifice. And the US is just as guilty sending their government billions of dollars, with zero oversight as to how it is spent.

15. I know what consular services is. But just so I know you know, how would you explain that to my friend?

16. That’s awful. People have the right to flee war. If you cannot convince enough people to fight, than you clearly you haven’t the support to continue the war

17. Where are the feminists now?

18. I don’t give a shit about any state. I’ll run if there’s a war of this scale and take familiy with me.

19. The fact that female conscription is completely ignored is absolutely disgusting. Men are literally second class citizens.

    And this is not true only for Ukraine, it is also true for Russia. Hell the entire West as well and pretty much the entire world. Only country with female conscription I can think of is Israel……

    Meanwhile I’m bombarded by gender gap this, misogyny that, toxic masculinity this 24/7….