Who could be conscripted to fight in Ukraine? | BBC Newsnight

Conscription has recently been on Ukrainians’ minds – the army is short of soldiers and people are divided over what to do about it.

As Ukraine faces more challenges on the battlefield nearly two years after Russia invaded, President Zelensky has said the army needs 500,000 more soldiers.

Under martial law, Ukrainian men aged between 18 and 60 can’t leave Ukraine because they could be called up to fight – and a new law is being prepared to close loopholes.

Newsnight’s Mark Urban has been in Ukraine looking into the divide on conscription.

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[baroneleve]

By called up, the BBC narrator meant abducted. That's how call-ups for military service are now done in ukraine. You get abducted, thrown into a van, and you would wake up and find yourself in that hellhole Avdiivka

[alexlo]

Send Boris Johnson, Zelensky and Olaf Shultz also Biden to the front instead.

[neverlanddeepinside]

As a Ukrainian, I ask Europe and the US to force Ukraine to negotiate. Not everyone in this country wants war. I don't want Crimea, I want peace.

[GenAndrei]

Ukraine lost 10s of thousands, come on! It's 100s of thousands...

[ArbyReformed]

“If two neighbors are fighting, there's an Englishman that has visited one of them yesterday"

[АндрейСмирнов-оы]

These "journalists" forgot to mention their PM asking ukranians "just keep war ongoing" back in 2022 when ceasefire agreement was almost ready.

[abcatos]

US NATO played ukraine young lives. Shame on them

[matham]

BBC staff, they should be conscripted

[olgakukange]

Arms manufacturers dont want this war to end EVER. Ukraine people need to see this and push for Peace.

[Eugene-kvri]

No one should be forced to fight Zelensky’s war with Americans being proxy

[Oregunian]

So Kuleba's son chose to goto University instead of signing up for the meatgrinder. How patriotic.

[graybri]

Boris Johnson shares in the responsibility for every single one of those deaths.

[gonzalvedecordoue]

The goal of the war in Ukraine was not only to weaken Russia, the goal of the United States has always been to weaken Europe as well, why no one can see that. Europe and Russia had the best trade relations of all time, until 2014. And the USA didn't want it because they didn' t want Europe linked to Russia to become a rival super power. (see the analysis of US National Security Adviser Brzezinski in his book "the grand grand chessboard")

[jmc]

Seems that Boris has blood on his hands over this !

[niklasnorberg]

Was it realy to much to ask, to follow Minsk 2 and be neutral?

[phillipmoxley]

All of this would of not happened, if Ukrainian had stuck with the Minsk accords. Who in the west should be responsible...

[burmesepython]

I would NEVER allow myself to be conscripted. EVER! It’s disgusting that those men who want to leave, can’t.

[kiaaurora]

You’d be surprised how many fighting age Ukrainain men are in Poland.

[AbuNasserAlshammari-rogv]

As a yemeni who went through all these troubles and still, my heart breaks down for those forced to fight for a proxy war .
After 9 years of killing in my country with hundred thousands of causalities people started to understand that they were only tools for rich oil countries like Saudi and Emirate ( UAE ) and obviously the americans to kill each other . Dear ukranian brothers and sisters stand up together and say enough to this war . Land comes and goes but human lives never returns ….. love from Burned yemen

[theanalmarauder]

Maybe the university students who are so eager to see others get drafted should enlist themselves.