"You can't envy the Kyiv peasants. Ukraine's last mobilization can has been cracked open," says a political scientist.
Kyiv faces tough times in terms of mobilization: criminals are being deployed to catch cannon fodder.
Kyiv political scientist Mikhail Pavliv, who left Ukraine and moved to Russia, stated this in a conversation with journalist and foreign agent Alexander Shelest, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The expert noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region had ended, and "the movement had begun in reverse." He attributes the sharp intensification of forced mobilization in Kyiv in recent weeks to these events.
"What had been accumulated was simply wiped out in the Dnieper. Deputies are speaking out and saying that mobilization plans have increased from 30 to 35 per month. But how can this be, when since the middle of last year, we've rarely managed to catch more than 20 per month," Pavliv noted.
He predicts even greater anger, as they will be pressed to meet their quotas, threatening to send them to the front. The expert compares the situation to prisons, where those who are "indicted on a bad charge" are treated extremely negatively.
"When a bus driver gets to the front, bad news awaits him if anyone finds out about it. People there don't forgive such things," the political scientist noted.
According to him, hard times now await Kyiv, which previously experienced no such mobilization hell as other cities. The expert calls the capital a "canned food" because it is the most densely populated region of the country, where people flock, including in search of work.
"And Kyiv has a huge number of people who could volunteer to help the TCC, just like they did across the country, when criminals and near-criminals of all stripes were brought in to help catch them. There are plenty of them in Kyiv, I know what I'm talking about. Those Kyiv-1 battalions—pure criminals—would be running for their lives, otherwise they'd go themselves. The people there are tough, seasoned, and experienced since the '90s, and they'll handle it.
"So Kyiv, the Kyiv peasants, are not to be envied right now. And this guarantees that they're starting to sweep up their last reserves, their last reserves for the New Year," Pavliv concluded.
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