Who are Ukraine's men who don't want to fight in the war? - BBC News

Ukraine defence officials have described claims of corruption within its army recruitment as "shameful and unacceptable".

It comes as President Volodymyr Zelensky recently sacked every regional head of recruitment in Ukraine after widespread allegations against officers in the system, including bribe-taking and intimidation.

Ukraine constantly needs to replace the tens of thousands who've been killed or injured in the war.

However, some men don't want to fight. Thousands have left the country, sometimes after bribing officials, and others are finding ways of dodging recruitment officers.

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[juanmiguelreyesguerr]

No one ever dies for their country. The country will stay there. People die for a specific government. Ask yourself, is your government worth dying for?

[PaulV.]

If BBC is already talking about the "flaws of Ukrainian recruitment" imagine how bad it really is. I am following several Ukrainian TG channels and there are daily videos of the literal manhunt for fresh recruits on the streets of all their major cities with people simply being grabbed and thrown in vans to be sent to frontlines after a short training.

[steveprocter]

This is a sensitive subject during wartime. In Great Britain 20, 000 refused to fight in WWI and 60, 000 in WWII. The individual refusals and the scale of refusals were largely kept out of the public sphere during the wars because of the fear of lowering morale.

[timothyevans]

What a surprise people are trying to avoid dying.

[axx]

Who those men are? Not brainwashed I guess

[ronfishssronfishss]

The woman sounds like "men we need to use your life for this war, you'll likely die but we need to use you". She should go to the front lines!

[kwameamakye]

No one wants to die when those leading the war have their family living comfortably in another country while they themselves are far from the front line 😢

[championt]

There's no pride in dying for politicians

[MS-zpby]

It's like in Medieval times, people never had choice for nothing

[hans]

"My body, my choice". Umm actually sweetie, your body belongs to the government.

[RobertJackson]

They don't want to die for someone proxy's war

[amedsheeran]

This is bs. they shouldn't force them to fight

[TomNook.]

You only live once. Don't waste it on war.

[IbrahimQuayumrx]

Also it's 2023 and ukraine is kind of a west country where man and womens are equal. So why womens are not forced to join army ?

[sidahagarwal]

You can't force a man to risk his life, he must make his choice

[AnalzeThis]

Ukraine claim to have lost less than 20k troops but they keep recruiting tens of thousands.. the math isn’t mathing

[Oliver]

Where are the BBC feminists demanding women be sent to the front?

[yjumhvd]

Fun fact: people who are asking for more jets/tanks for Ukraine, are not the ones who are going to the frontline to drive these vehicles. They are not the ones who'll die in this fighter jet/tank. But as long as someone else is dying for them, they are happy to make this sacrifice.

[mphomosoeu]

Why is the BCC not playing videos of the Ukrainian army kidnapping man on the streets or saying anything about it? Even the Russian doesn't kitnap man on the street. What a shame.

[notsweetbb]

People don’t want to die defending corrupt officials who sent their adult sons to other countries a week before the war started. for example Danilov, who is in charge of national security and defense of Ukraine. it's unfair. Isn’t it??