Conscription Has Become a Nightmare
The police and military is working harder than ever to draft every last man of age, left in the country. They run after people in the streets, surround buildings to catch any men who step outside for a breath of fresh air, and recruit psychically sick, and severely mentally ill, people. When the sick people die in the busses on the way to the barracks, they claim these deaths are all caused by epilepsy, because it doesn't really matter what they say. When the recruiters kill people, they claim that the people committed suicide.
Many of the people who get recruited, die within the first 3 months. It goes without saying that the large majority of people who get recruited, die eventually, given that Ukraine is vastly outnumbered in terms of both people and military equipment.
My husband's alcoholic uncle willingly enlisted into the army a while ago, as he felt he had no more reason to live. A month later he was transferred somewhere, and no one has heard from him since. He did not receive any military training in the barracks. When people are sent to the front lines, they are told to blindly shoot and duck from time to time. It is not a heroic mission like in a movie, it is a pointless game of Russian roulette.
Ukraine is not a piece of land, Ukraine is the people and traditions. Men should be helping their wives and children escape the country, instead of fighting recruiters of their own nationality. Ukraine will not exist without Ukrainians.
My husband has been lucky to have family members who were able to help him avoid recruitment throughout his life. His grandmother was a respected pediatrician, with many friends in the medical field. She bribed a doctor to write that my husband was ineligible for military service, when he was still a child. My husband later became a student in university, and in those times, the military could not recruit students. When he finished his degree in university, his other uncle managed to bribe an official in the military office, to not investigate him. In despite of the papers he got through his grandmother, the military could have told him to get re-evaluated, so this was a necessary step to protect my husband as well. Ukraine has been at war with Russia since he was 22 years old.
Students who don't go through military training now, will be expelled. Going through with the training means that they can find and recruit them as soon as they come of age, and manipulate them to willingly join the military as soon as they turn 18. They promise these 18 year old boys a lot of money, a completely free mortgage on a large house, and lifelong free healthcare and education. I don't believe all this money exists, it is clear that they expect the majority of them to die.
I believe that every child deserves an equal chance at life, no matter what country he was born in, and that every grown man has a right to protect his own life. We are not machines, we are human beings with loved ones and future dreams. It is no person's duty to give up the only life they will ever have.
My husband and I live safely in Novovolynsk, but our future looks bleak. It is my hope that Ukraine will let men escape the country one day, but this is not guaranteed. It is not known how long this war will last, but it is known for certain that it won't end without efficient security guarantees.
I moved to Ukraine in 2018, to be with my husband. We never imagined that we would get trapped here like this. I wish we went to Denmark (my country) when the Russian army stood on Ukraine's boarders.
I will never lose hope in a future with my husband by my side. I want to go to cafes and drink coffee with him, outside in the fresh air. I have to believe that everything will work out in the end, otherwise I will become crazy from the anxiety and fear of loss and the unknown.
Many of the people who get recruited, die within the first 3 months. It goes without saying that the large majority of people who get recruited, die eventually, given that Ukraine is vastly outnumbered in terms of both people and military equipment.
My husband's alcoholic uncle willingly enlisted into the army a while ago, as he felt he had no more reason to live. A month later he was transferred somewhere, and no one has heard from him since. He did not receive any military training in the barracks. When people are sent to the front lines, they are told to blindly shoot and duck from time to time. It is not a heroic mission like in a movie, it is a pointless game of Russian roulette.
Ukraine is not a piece of land, Ukraine is the people and traditions. Men should be helping their wives and children escape the country, instead of fighting recruiters of their own nationality. Ukraine will not exist without Ukrainians.
My husband has been lucky to have family members who were able to help him avoid recruitment throughout his life. His grandmother was a respected pediatrician, with many friends in the medical field. She bribed a doctor to write that my husband was ineligible for military service, when he was still a child. My husband later became a student in university, and in those times, the military could not recruit students. When he finished his degree in university, his other uncle managed to bribe an official in the military office, to not investigate him. In despite of the papers he got through his grandmother, the military could have told him to get re-evaluated, so this was a necessary step to protect my husband as well. Ukraine has been at war with Russia since he was 22 years old.
Students who don't go through military training now, will be expelled. Going through with the training means that they can find and recruit them as soon as they come of age, and manipulate them to willingly join the military as soon as they turn 18. They promise these 18 year old boys a lot of money, a completely free mortgage on a large house, and lifelong free healthcare and education. I don't believe all this money exists, it is clear that they expect the majority of them to die.
I believe that every child deserves an equal chance at life, no matter what country he was born in, and that every grown man has a right to protect his own life. We are not machines, we are human beings with loved ones and future dreams. It is no person's duty to give up the only life they will ever have.
My husband and I live safely in Novovolynsk, but our future looks bleak. It is my hope that Ukraine will let men escape the country one day, but this is not guaranteed. It is not known how long this war will last, but it is known for certain that it won't end without efficient security guarantees.
I moved to Ukraine in 2018, to be with my husband. We never imagined that we would get trapped here like this. I wish we went to Denmark (my country) when the Russian army stood on Ukraine's boarders.
I will never lose hope in a future with my husband by my side. I want to go to cafes and drink coffee with him, outside in the fresh air. I have to believe that everything will work out in the end, otherwise I will become crazy from the anxiety and fear of loss and the unknown.
