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Ukrainian military recruitment officers raided restaurants, bars and a concert hall in Kyiv, checking military registration documents and detaining men who were not in compliance, media and witnesses reported Saturday.

Officers descended on Kyiv’s Palace of Sports venue after a concert Friday night by Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy. Video footage aired by local media outlets appears to show officers stationed outside the doors of the concert hall intercepting men as they exit. In the footage, officers appear to be forcibly detaining some men.

Checks were also conducted at Goodwine, an upscale shopping center, and Avalon, a popular restaurant.

It is unusual for such raids to take place in the capital, and reflects Ukraine’s dire need for fresh recruits. All Ukrainian men aged 25-60 are eligible for conscription, and men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the country.

  • StarbuncleEnglish
    68·
    13 hours ago

    The condition in which one person is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control, especially in involuntary servitude.

    It doesn’t say anything about about a military draft exception. All drafts are slavery. It doesn’t matter how noble the people enforcing it think their cause is.

    • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      12 hours ago

      Soldiers, conscripted or volunteer, aren’t owned as property though. Although I’m sure we’ll have ‘discourse’ about that. They aren’t bought, sold, or traded for goods and services.

      • StarbuncleEnglish
        93·
        11 hours ago

        They functionally are. They are compelled to comply under the threat of violence.

    • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      11 hours ago

      Sorry but if your country is literally being invaded by hostile forces and your own country’s government didn’t commit some heinous act to invite said invasion (genocide, or retribution for their own invasion), you are a hopeless coward trying to dodge that draft. We’re not talking about fucking Vietnam.

      • StarbuncleEnglish
        51·
        11 hours ago

        Do you feel the same way about women not volunteering themselves since they don’t have a draft?

        • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          10 hours ago

          Yes, I do. If they’re not or can’t volunteer to be part of the military there are other ways they can contribute to national defense. See: WW2

          • StarbuncleEnglish
            2·
            9 hours ago

            I think we have misaligned values (you seem to put less value in individual rights), but I can respect your consistency.