Who is resisting Ukraine’s conscription – and who supports it? | DW News Desk

men want to know if I’m going to sign up for the military is this a one-way ticket or am I gonna have a prospect of surviving coming back to my family uh because I think you’d have to be pretty crazy to um go to the front lines if you thought it was certain death no country could have a military if everybody thought they were all going to die and a well organized Army in this kind of War um will have uh rule mons in and out of the front line and some well organized units in Ukraine have that so you’re in rest you’re in or you’re on the front line and you rotate three on a three 3:1 basis now a lot of units don’t do that if you’re a Ukrainian and you have a choice and you haven’t gone it’s a it’s it’s a pretty dismal Prospect that’s before we get into the reason they have to do this which is casualties and I would estimate based on us uh the latest us figures uh which which were 6 months or so ago now which indicated about 70,000 kills

To win its war, Ukraine needs to draft more young soldiers, but some are trying to escape the call to arms. We talk to someone avoiding the draft and putting your questions to military expert Frank Ledwidge and DW correspondent Amien Essif. What do you think? Should Ukraine be allowed to force conscripts to fight?

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13 comments

  1. I personally am against constriction solely for the fact that if you don't want to fight, then you don't have to. I also understand democracy can't exist without it. I could never fight like what unkraine is going through. But I, as a front-line heathworker, can do other things to help. Everyone should be doing a part

  4. I love Ukraine as a country, but not as a state. And I don't want to be wasted for nothing, like it often happens here. I hate this gangster regime, i don't consider them as Ukrainians at all. They are criminals, Soviet mafia

  5. Tough call, but that's part of citizenship. However, the rest of the Free-Dem World are responsible for these soldiers' survival.

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