![]() ![]() I’m worried about the men in this country, many others are worse off than me.” ![]() My friends were trained for five days and sent to Donetsk. I live in fear they will send me to war without proper training. “My friends and I have no experience and we do not want to hold weapons and cannot physically fight. Now I can’t even help myself, I am left alone with strangers without a home and cannot leave the country,” he said. “My fiancée and sick mother need me abroad so that I can work and help them. Andrij was separated from his mother, sister, and fiancee when they fled to London and he was forced to stay behind. One young man hiding out in Lviv, Ukraine-whom I’ll call Andrij-asked me to share his story but was afraid to use his real name. Even before this proclamation, they felt terrified and desperate. After the new proclamation came down, one Ukrainian tweeted, “Now we can’t even leave our cities without permission from military recruitment centers.” Another tweeted, “Animals have more rights in Ukraine than men.”Īs a conflict researcher who recently spent time assisting with the humanitarian effort and reporting from the Poland-Ukraine border, I’ve been hearing from young civilian men in Ukraine for months, with some reaching out to me via anonymous Twitter accounts. With the Twitter hashtag #UkraineLetMenOut, citizens had already been complaining bitterly about men being unable to leave the country with their families since Russia’s invasion. On July 5, Ukrainian army generals issued a proclamation dramatically expanding the martial law prohibiting Ukrainian civilian men’s freedom of movement, calling on all those “liable for military service” to remain in their home districts. A woman sitting inside a bus kisses a man who is standing outside the bus and leaning in the door to kiss her.Ī woman kisses her husband as she is about to leave on a bus a day after a rocket attack at a train station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on April 9. ![]()
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