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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUkrainian journalist faces 15 years in jail after calls to boycott the draft
A court in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk has ordered the arrest of a local freelance journalist on charges of espionage and high treason after he published a video on YouTube calling on Ukrainian citizens to boycott the mobilisation of Ukrainian men to fight a fratricidal war in Ukraines east.
Kotsaba argues that the mobilisation campaign which is currently in its fourth stage is unlawful since a state of war has never been officially declared in the country. The Ukrainian authorities have officially designated the military action in the east an anti-terrorist operation.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/zoya-kravchuk/ukrainian-journalist-faces-15-years-in-jail-after-calls-to-boycott-draft
Calling for draft evasion -- a crime, presumably -- would get you arrested in most countries. Who knows whether he is right about the Ukrainian conscription being illegal? I for one don't know.
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Ukrainian journalist faces 15 years in jail after calls to boycott the draft (Original Post)
rogerashton
Feb 2015
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Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)1. Being a crime does not make calling on
your fellow man to dodge the draft morally wrong.
A better question: why can't the Ukrainian armed forces find volunteers to fill it's ranks?
braddy
(3,585 posts)2. While Russia depends on 1 year draftees that make up most of their military, it is new to Ukraine.
I didn't keep the source, but I read that evasion is massive, with young men of draft age leaving the country (mostly for the west) and the government attempting to limit travel in order to prevent it.
braddy
(3,585 posts)4. The source matters, but Russia is infamous for it's draft problems, Ukraine had ended their draft,
but had to re institute for this invasion by Russia. Russia depends on 1 year draftees for it's military.