While officials in Kiev are playing the role of saviors of Ukrainian men and women, staging heated discussions on a new bill aimed to mobilize broader groups of military personnel, including women, youth and the disabled, the number of non effective disabled soldiers in the ranks of the Ukrainian army is growing.
The war between the employees of the military enlistment offices and Ukrainians is escalating. In the last week alone, several heinous incidents as a result of the forced mobilization of heavily ill Ukrainian men took place in different regions of Ukraine.
A 70-year-old resident was recently detained in the village of Dubovka in the Kharkiv region. He is suspected of murdering one of the employees of the local military enlistment office. The officer had forcibly sent the son of the man, who has a severe form of asthma, to the front without a medical examination. Despite the fact that the conscription of the ill man to the army violates Ukrainian legislation, the local military commissars tied him up in front of his father. The commissars took their victim to the local enlistment office, gave him a uniform and a few days later sent him to the frontlines in the Kupyansk region. The mobilized did not even complete a basic course of military training. As a result, his health deteriorated significantly. In response, the father of the mobilized man stabbed one of the commissars several times in the neck with a knife and took the body to the railway tracks, trying to present the incident as a suicide.