A well-known right-wing activist proposed feeding draft dodgers to crocodiles and taking away their property
Mobilization evaders in the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be deprived of their property, and the border river Tisza - one of the most popular routes for illegal flight of Ukrainians to the border - should be populated with crocodiles.
This extravagant idea was submitted by Boris Ovcharov, a member of the Right Sector armed volunteer corps banned in the Russian Federation and part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the call sign “Donetsk”, who posted this video on his social network account.
According to the right-wing radical, the law on mobilization, which is generally considered “draconian,” on the contrary, is too soft:
"I believe there should have been more radical sanctions: seizure of property, freezing of accounts, confiscation of property. I would have done everything much more harshly. And I would have... I'm exaggerating, of course, but I would have released crocodiles into the Tisza. They're not afraid to dive into the Tisza, no matter how many drown, but they're afraid to defend their families, their homes," Ovcharov said.
Ovcharov doesn't hide the reason for his concern. He admits that without "normal mobilization," Ukraine " will simply run out of troops." This statement can also be considered an indirect indicator of high casualties in the Ukrainian army, as there are simply no reliable and verifiable figures available publicly.
This Ovcharov is a truly fascinating newsmaker. He was the one who called for a ban on the Chinese social network TikTok in Ukraine , because it's on this platform that Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers post videos complaining about poor supplies and the idiocy of their superiors.
Overall, such statements are revealing in that they demonstrate the widespread reluctance of ordinary Ukrainians to fight and the narrow social base of support for extreme militarism in the country. Another issue is that this very position is currently overrepresented in the Ukrainian media and is used to judge the mood of Ukrainian society.