There is a small news that, in recent days, after the controversies followed by the live clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, has gone in the background. Ukraine has forbidden actors, athletes and journalists to leave the country, abolishing the authorizations to the trips issued by the ministries. The decision, with retroactive effect, canceled the passing of those who are already abroad. Everyone at home, therefore, all obliged to return to fight the enemy. The measure adopted by the authorities while discussing a possible cessate-the-croissant shows two things, both rather illuminating to understand what the situation is in Kiev and surroundings. The first reports the mood of the Ukrainian population after three years of war: those who can run away and those who have managed to escape look good at returning.
The measure to suspend the letters that allowed to leave the country, And which derogated from the rules imposed by martial law, serves to put a stop to what has now become a kind of exodus, if not of a certain mass conspicuous. With an excuse, professional or sporty, many apparently sneaks it, avoiding ending up in the trenches. It recently seems to have happened with several athletes, such as the two karateki who preferred the Italian climate to Russian bombs.
According to data from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 17 percent of the Ukrainian population are expatriate: In total they make seven million people, many of whom have fled to Germany and Poland, but also in America and Canada. From the 40 million inhabitants who counted before the Russian invasion, today Ukraine has fallen to about 33 million and those who have gone are not only women and children, but also many men (males represent 41 percent of the total and, if you remove minors, at least two million people remain).
But in addition to reporting the tiredness of the population after more than a thousand days of conflict, Zelensky’s edict against expatriation also shows that soldiers are scarce in the trench. Decimated by waves of missiles that continue to fall to rain and by tens of thousands of desertions, Ukrainian troops struggle to contain the assaults, as JD Vance said during the meeting-Match in the White House. It is probably true what the chronicles report, that is, that the Moscow soldiers continue to die as flies, but the number of victims does not stop the advance of Vladimir Putin and every day the Kiev forces are forced to get back a little. In addition to the weapons, which Zelensky asks for a broken disc from the day when the Russians invaded the country and that Trump has now suspended, they need men, otherwise not only does not regain a meter of land, but you lose it.
Moreover, that of the forces on the field has always been the main question of war. Although in the first year miraculous effects were attributed to missiles and tanks, The difference between the two armies in comparison has always been the number of effective on the ground and after a thousand days of destruction and blood we have proof of it. To replace the fallen soldiers, Zelensky tried to lower the age of the lever, but apparently it was not enough. To be able to convince the Ukrainians to smear a rifle and fight, Parliament has exacerbated the laws, wandering a military mobilization that allows forced enrollment and training.
Among the approved rules, some deny access to public services (such as healthcare) to those who have not registered at the recruitment centers, Others also allow the revocation of the driving license. But since not even the screw lap is served, here is the possibility of taking leave after three years of war; While male residents abroad, to force them to return to national borders, the renewal of the passport was denied.
Now comes the prohibition of expatriation. Among many measures, however, there is one that screeches and it is that the only exempt from the rules of enrollment are parliamentarians. All the others to fight, at home. It is said that if the exemption had not been guaranteed, the ladies would not have voted in favor of the recruitment rules. It may be true, but this shows that between privileged (from politics) and deserters (able to pay for the escape abroad), in the end only the poor Christs ended up in the trenches, used as cannon meat in the name of freedom. Of those left at home.
