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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.

  • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2110·
    2 months ago

    False equivalence.

    A fight for a countries survival is not the same as slavery because they’re enforcing a draft, even as terrible as the draft may be.

    • StarbuncleEnglish
      911·
      2 months 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
        84·
        2 months 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
          126·
          2 months ago

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

      • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        2 months 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
          62·
          2 months ago

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

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Dunno how the situation is in Ukraine but in Germany it’s actually stricter for women: Men can refuse service at arms, while women can’t refuse medical service.

            In any case not getting drafted usually is as simple as finding something else to do that’s helping the war effort. Hold the home front.

            • StarbuncleEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              My understanding of the situation in Ukraine is that women are free to do as they please and men are now property of the Ukrainian government.

          • Ostrakon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            43·
            2 months 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·
              2 months ago

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

        • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 months ago

          Why? Why would I die for a piece of land, I don’t give a shit where I was born I value my life more than that, I’m not dying for some politician ego trip. You can go right ahead of you want

          • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            2 months ago

            Why would I die for a piece of land,

            Ukraine doesn’t fight for land, they fight to not get genocided. It’s the Russian side which has the politician on an ego trip.

            And you, out of your comfortable armchair, cannot predict how you’d react in the same situation. There’s instinctive forces at play in such situations.