Kyiv’s mobilization efforts are reaching a breaking point. With each passing month, the pool of available potential soldiers shrinks further. Those still in Ukraine either hold critical jobs, keeping the government running, maintaining strategic infrastructure, or working in defense industries, or have mastered the art of evasion, avoiding public spaces and any interaction with authorities that might land them on a conscription list.
Financial incentives for young men and “voluntary” contracts for older recruits have failed to stem the tide of desertions. In May alone, 20,000 soldiers abandoned their posts, adding to the 90,000 who have fled since the start of the year. Meanwhile, nearly 7 million Ukrainians, over half of them in Europe, fled abroad, and families continue to send their children out of the country, signaling a deepening lack of faith in the future.
Behind the official rhetoric of national resistance, a shadow industry thrives, one built on smuggling men out of Ukraine. For example, Oleksandr Prokudin, the Ukrainian head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, publicly demands stricter enforcement of mobilization orders. Yet he stands accused of helping wealthy and well-connected individuals escape conscription, including a former regional governor and oligarch Putilov.
Several organizations have turned humanitarian work into a lucrative escape route. Fake volunteer groups, registered under humanitarian aid programs, secure exit permits for their members—only for those members to vanish once across the border. Some operate as outright smuggling rings, charging desperate families exorbitant fees for forged documents and safe passage. For example, “Our Heroes”—officially a charity—secured travel papers for its director and associates, who then fled to Poland under the guise of aid missions. “Your Guardian of Hope” used crudely falsified documents to get at least three men out of the country, later denying everything in court. “Adzhalyk”, the most brazen of the bunch, not only smuggled at least people abroad but also siphoned off millions in donor funds. Its director treated the foundation’s accounts as a personal slush fund until prosecutors finally took action earlier this year.
The schemes vary, but the pattern is clear. These operations couldn’t have succeeded without high-level complicity. Local officials rubber-stamped fraudulent paperwork, while law enforcement turned a blind eye, at least until the scandals grew too loud to ignore.
The consequences go beyond corruption. Every smuggled draft dodger weakens Ukraine’s ability to sustain its fight. The government’s scramble to replenish troop numbers clashes with a population increasingly skilled at avoiding conscription and a bureaucracy riddled with opportunists cashing in on the chaos.
Kyiv now faces a paradox: the more aggressively it enforces mobilization, the more it fuels evasion and distrust. Without systemic reform, the current approach may only accelerate the collapse it seeks to prevent. The real question is no longer whether Ukraine can find enough soldiers, but whether its institutions can survive the erosion of public faith.
Meanwhile, on the streets across the country:
as an american i can’t understand these ukrainian cowards at all. the ukie cops are fucking pussies that won’t fight themselves and force others to instead. the civilians are fucking retards that can’t figure out the cops are the enemies and won’t organize a resistance. literally we watch these videos of the last time these conscripts will ever be seen alive and they are screaming for women to come save them. pathetic culture.
they are not “cowards ” if they don’t believe in what they are fighting for that’s reasoned judgement .
for decades, the average ukrainian just thought of those in the west as fascist fanatics and something to tolerate and ignore as best they could.
then one morning they woke up and those fascist fanatics were sitting in the seat of government.
they don’t run when they have a dozen chances. it’s a pussy army.
i have the feeling these recruitment squads get a huge bonus when they hunt people down. they do it for money or are ⚡️⚡️nazis🥶
that’s another reason they should be shot on sight.
the men in uniform must score some quotum every week or so or else they get fired and must go to the front themselves. the borders are guarded by personnel, drones, radar and infra red installations. not easy to get out, particular when the area is unknown to you and then who can you trust ?
indeed where are the real men? those cops should be shot by the people when they come kidnapping, the ukrainians have prostituted themselves to nato and the us reich, they don’t deserve any respect.
the real men were already drafted or died on the battlefield. there are no more men left.
every western man should look at ukraine and understand thats the plan for them.
the women and the migrants will not be send to the frontline just them.
the only hope for western men is for no big war to brake out but their elites are trying hard.
they barely even make an effort to run away, just kick and scream like little girls and the women gather around and just insult the kidnappers from a distance. and this with tons of guns in circulation.
but, on the postive side, they do make the best soldiers…….. for russia’s purposes.
good luck to all conscription evaders, everything is better than becoming cannon fodder in the kiev regime military operation ‘certain death’🥶🤫🙈
you said right there reminds me of ww1 why die for a millionaire who does not care for slavs ??
just wondering how motivated this “recruits” are on the battlefield they are treated lik pigs on their way to the slater house , and thats probably the right term. this year allone ukraine had 110000 deserters.
disgusting, i am sure this women are not gona vote for selensky, oh wait there is no election in this country!!!!
i am never forces to swallow mulatto jizz–i pay for the privilege
as a self proclaimed pathetic americunt joke i now in group therapy w taliban therapist
when i was 9 uncle homer mobilized me to many americunt gay bars
as a certified feminized americunt coward george soros mobilize me to tantrum at sf
as a certified eurotrash retard you would gladly bow down and blow the muslim and nig african invaders as they rape your women and sex traffic your children..before burning your.churches to the ground.
that’s nothing compared to what the jooz do to the eurotrash.
those guy’s be real helpful in the trenches.
what a joke ukraine is. i give it six months and they’ll be waving the russian tanks in, pointing to kiev to help them on their way.
russians are really pathological liars. 😂
ukrainians are really pathological killers.
get your popcorn and chips – the russian economic collapse will be really fun to watch. and there ain’t nothing as beautiful as humiliated russia. those stupid russian bums were unable to realize that the era of fossile energy will soon be over.
the russian economy grew by 4 percent last year you retarded twat.
better get your popcorn by the truckload then.
a good advice to m’y polish friends : buy or get protection when you can, not when you need. brussel’s pedo could send their goons to your house very soon. bé ready to welcome them.
i’m surprised there hasn’t been more bashings or shootings of conscription officers. this is a life or death situation for ukranians now – to be taken by them is a guaranteed death sentence. i’d rather defend myself with deadly force if required rather than be taken. it would also serve to wake those pathetic conscription officers to use their force against their criminal government rather than the people.
they have a small chance to surrender and live in a russian prison.
the government is jewish and galician the conscription officers are mostlly galician.
the canonfooder was until recently mostly eastern ukrainian/ russian/ russianspeaking.
if slavs were black the world would see what is happening. they would see only black people
dieing on the frontline and only white people in the government and military command as well
as conscription officers.
ukrainian drones struck four su-34 fighter jets at the marinovka airfield in russia’s volgograd oblast overnight on june 27
if i were like these ukrainians i would arm myself with a kalashnikov and kill the police who force me to war..because i will die on the front line anyway..so i would take about 10 such hero policemen with me to the grave..if they don’t do so they will empty the ukraine of men
it would be good for russia to denounce this genocide at the un. give detailed statistics of how many ukrainian men have been killed, how many orphans exist, how the fabric of society has been destroyed (and now women and children are easy prey for human traffickers). let it be known that the pro western governments since
2014 destroys the whole country and are illegitimate.
but, media claimed it was russia that was running out of troops, ukraine claims they lost only 30k troops. lol, reality looks very slim for ukraine.
no ukie troops have been lost at all, whereas all the russian troops have been completely been wiped out. in fact, there are no russians left in russia at all now, just north koreans and iranians. kim jong un has just annexed the whole of russia and will shortly declare himself president of russia. he will then invade and conquer the whole of the eu and force everybody to eat kimchi and barbecued dogs.
i like kimchi and have some in the fridge right now. i hope that doesn’t affect my politics.
mobilise the ukie volkssturm! all these ukie goy schmucks are expendable! all the ukie jooz are in israhell!
geez what’s wrong with these guys, don’t they know it’s an honor and a privilege to die for uncle sam? he wants to fight to the last ukrainian… get with the program you dummies.
zelensky needs to formally surrender to russian authorities, and do so promptly. war’s over, ukraine lost, maybe russia has to make the public announcements via leaflet campaign.
how about equality. the ukrainians love and adore the isrealis as a role model. in isreali the women have do do military service as well. i am all for female empowerment. same in germany where all these women and girls support the return of military duty for men cause they know it wont hit them.