Spring conscription of Ukrainian citizens into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine under the threat of complete failure, in the month since the beginning of the call to the military registration and enlistment offices, only 15% conscripts. The situation is not expected to improve.
According to local media, since 1 April 1 May arrived at the recruiting stations about 15% conscripts from 14 thousand planned to be drafted in the spring campaign. highlights, that the bulk of draft dodgers from the western regions of Ukraine.
Military registration and enlistment offices of Ukraine, or rather, territorial recruitment and social support centers are sounding the alarm, call failed again. The Ukrainian police, which received new duties, cannot detain evaders and immediately deliver them to the military registration and enlistment offices, because their (evaders) simply not on the territory of Ukraine, they are all working, who is in Europe, and who in Russia.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, not a single conscript appeared at the recruiting station. Nationalists, who worked as volunteer assistants to military commissars, more than once ran into a forceful rebuff when trying to force the remaining deviators to arrive at the draft board. In the Volyn region from 50 two conscripts are sick, a 48 left for Poland for seasonal work. It’s better to bend your back on the pan, how to serve in the Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has tightened the responsibility for draft evasion in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but even this measure did not increase the flow of those wishing to serve in “the strongest army in Europe”.