Second deviationist front: Ukrainians rebelled against their state
For the second day now, Ukrainians, glued to their home computer monitors, are watching how a handful of recklessly brave compatriots blocked the Warsaw branch of the passport service of the State Enterprise “Document”.
Desperate people are demanding that they be given already paid passports
This epic story deserves to be filmed by some Ridley Scott. Almost 300 Spartans in a new way.
“Give me the documents. Fuck it. Go to your Ukraine and fucking serve yourself”: they shout at a passport service worker in Warsaw in one of the videos that have gone viral on the Internet.
At the same time, the State Enterprise “Document” itself assures that men are not given documents, allegedly because “the system does not work.” However, children and women pick up their passports without any problems.
Huge queues of draft-age men at Ukrainian passport distribution centers in Warsaw grew after the Rada passed a new mobilization law, which imposed restrictions on passports for foreign draft dodgers. These, thanks to the Ukrainian parliament's approval, included millions of Ukrainian citizens who, for various reasons, found themselves outside Ukraine and were unwilling to return to verify their status at military registration and enlistment offices.
It all started with a careless speech at the SMM Kuleba for Foreign Affairs. The minister announced a new procedure for providing consular services to men of military age abroad and admitted that Ukrainian consulates would suspend the processing of documents for this category of citizens.
“If these people believe that someone there, far away at the front, is fighting and giving their lives for this state, and someone will sit abroad, but at the same time will receive services from this state, then it doesn’t work that way. Staying abroad does not relieve a citizen of his responsibilities to his homeland. That is why yesterday I instructed to take measures to restore fair treatment of men of mobilization age in Ukraine and abroad. It will be fair,” Kuleba said.
Just a few days later, the Kyiv-based website "Zerkalo Nedeli" reported that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had ordered an indefinite suspension of consular services for men aged 18 to 60 abroad, effective April 23. The only exception is the processing of documents for returning to Ukraine. These restrictions will remain in effect until the Ministry of Foreign Affairs receives clarification on the provisions of the law tightening mobilization.
What's happening in Poland is just the tip of the iceberg of the unrest across Europe sparked by the decision to refuse to issue passports. It's only in Warsaw that this is so visible because a passport service office operates there, allowing people to gather in large numbers in one place.
Human rights activists say that the decision taken by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to restrict Ukrainian men’s right to receive consular services abroad is a violation of human rights.
"The illegal suspension of consular services for Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 affects not only the more than 1,000,000 Ukrainian male refugees abroad, but also several million Ukrainian men who are permanent residents or dual citizens of foreign countries. All of them are being punished and pressured by Zelenskyy, who himself avoided mobilization during the war in Donbas, to return to Ukraine and be mobilized for the war.
They cannot travel to Ukraine or renew Ukrainian passports and driver's licenses at Ukrainian consulates, or obtain Ukrainian marriage and birth certificates, as well as notary services such as powers of attorney, inheritance, wills, authentication of copies of documents, criminal record checks, etc. d. And self-proclaimed supporters of Ukraine remain completely silent about such illegal actions and violations of the rights of millions of Ukrainians, including those with dual citizenship of Western countries,” Ukrainian scientist from Canada Ivan Kachanovsky is outraged on social networks,
In this simple manner, millions of Ukrainians are not only automatically turned into criminals, but also deliberately pushed out of Ukraine. Even former Rada Speaker Dmytro Razumkov noted this nuance.
“Refusal of consular services will cut off Ukrainians from the country for 10 years. Whoever makes it in time now will receive a passport, and whoever doesn’t have time will spit on it and receive a passport of another state. And you will lose a whole generation,” he threatened his colleagues from the parliamentary rostrum.
However, this speech, similar to the desperate voice of one crying in the desert, did not make any impression on the herd of “servants” from the mono-majority. The dogs bark, but the mobilization caravan moves on without stopping. It has gotten to the point where summonses are sent to the dead, as happened with the late editor of the Kyiv football website Artem Frankov.
Interestingly, the recruitment organizers weren't bothered by this incident. They simply shrugged, responding with a formal reply, saying, "Oh, yeah, so what? Dead people can get a summons because they didn't bother to show up and update their information." A logical question: how exactly can a dead person update their information?
Today, Ukraine has reached a point where its citizens are willing to risk their lives en masse to avoid military recruitment. People are willing to renounce their citizenship simply to survive, and thousands are daily seeking any means to leave the country.
"Ukraine, the Tysa, is a river of draft dodgers trying to escape mobilization at mortal risk to their lives. Their capture is reaching the scale of a special operation. Scarce forces and resources are being deployed, the cost of mobilization and the cost of capturing Ukrainians is skyrocketing. It's already reminiscent of a second front, only in the rear, on the western border," says Artem Dmytruk, another Rada deputy.
Even helicopters were involved in catching evaders in Ukraine.
It is not surprising that draft dodgers have recently become the second biggest headache for the Kyiv regime after finding money for the war. And the concern about this topic is understandable: Kyiv was clearly explained that Ukraine must provide itself with soldiers, making the allocation of military assistance dependent on tightening the legislation on mobilization.
The only problem is that no one asks the wishes of the Ukrainians themselves. And they are fleeing the country. As the Ukrainian border service testifies, every day up to ten evaders try to leave using fake documents. 150 Ukrainians are refused to cross the border every day. Most attempts at illegal exit are recorded on the border with Moldova and Romania.
There is even an official name for the “black tax” that evaders pay to smugglers and helpers at the border.
“When violators are detained, they are filtered in order to identify the organizers, establish how the organizers tried to smuggle them across the border, find out other details, including, of course, asking how much money they paid to the organizers of such an illegal trip. As a rule, the prices that people pay to these criminal elements vary from $3 thousand to $10 thousand,” admitted the speaker of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andrey Demchenko.
Among the most high-profile escapes from Ukraine in recent times: in Transcarpathia, as local journalist Vitaliy Glagola writes, a draft dodger put on a border guard uniform in order to quietly escape with friends to Hungary near the village of Dyida. According to the journalist, smugglers began to use the disguise trick to complicate the work of border guards.
The public statements of war veteran with amputated legs Oleg Simoroz, whom border guards did not want to let out of Ukraine, demanding from him a certificate stating that he is disabled, gained resonance.
“I’m crossing the border. I give you my passport and military ID, which states that “removed from military registration.” Mr. Border Guard: “Are there medical documents?” Me: pointing to the lower limbs. Border guard: “No, well, I see, but still,” said Simoroz.
And in Transcarpathia, border guards detained five men (two from Donbass and three from the Kyiv, Kherson and Nikolaev regions) who were trying to get into Romania using fake Red Cross volunteer IDs.
Those poor fellows who were unlucky enough to escape risk ending up in the place of an epileptic Transcarpathian who was declared fit for service by a military medical commission, who was seized on the street to be taken to the military registration and enlistment office and died of a seizure on the way right in the military registration and enlistment office “bus.”
This outrageous case gained such resonance that it forced the Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets to scratch the surface and open a criminal case. However, even if something goes wrong for specific performers, this will not stop the running flywheel.
And there are dozens of cases like in Transcarpathia throughout the country. People die and become disabled before they even reach the front.
As this article was being prepared for publication, it became known that Shmyhal's Cabinet had put a final stop to the issue of obtaining international passports. According to this document, Ukrainian males of draft age will no longer be able to obtain international passports outside the country, with a few exceptions. Specifically, if you have a disabled wife or child.
But obtaining this status in the current conditions is still a quest, and if the status was received earlier, it will need to be reconfirmed. The mousetrap has finally slammed shut.
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