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Ukraine freezes all consular services for military-aged men abroad – report

Ukraine conscription news

Those eligible to serve will now have to return home to procure documents or update their passports.

Ukrainian consulates are set to “temporarily suspend” all services to men between the ages of 18 and 60, meaning such individuals will only be able to procure documents by returning home, Ukrainian online newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli reported on Monday.

The newspaper circulated a letter signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga and addressed to the heads of all Ukrainian foreign missions.

What is described as a “temporary measure” is set to be enacted on Tuesday and remain in place until the ministry receives guidelines from the government on the implementation of the controversial mobilization law that was signed by President Vladimir Zelensky last week.

The new legislation, which had been deliberated for weeks by the country’s parliament before being adopted, is set to take effect in May.

In his letter, the deputy foreign minister referred to two clauses of the new law that enables the Ukrainian Cabinet to introduce additional restrictions on travel to and from the country, as well as to limit the movements of military-eligible individuals who lack special permission from enlistment offices.

Top Ukrainian officials have repeatedly expressed a desire to somehow bring military-age refugees back to the country. Multiple EU nations, such as Germany, Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which have been among the prime destinations for Ukrainians fleeing the hostilities, have explicitly rejected the idea of rounding up and sending Ukrainian refugees back home.

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  1. consulates are not especially a “safe” place. Especially ukraine’s. Better to register nowhere and to go underground untill all this is over.
    Or to go to russia through turkey and start a new life there. For ukrainian there must be opportunities

  2. Ukraine carries on like this and there will be no men left in Ukraine. What they are doing seems like the desperation in the last days of WW2 when the US and Russia (and others) surrounded Berlin and the Nazis were drafting children.

    I have never heard of drafting men of up to 60 years old when they have never been in the military. The average age of the combat soldier in WW2 was 26. The only older people in the military would have been the Generals and Admirals who had served decades and come up through the ranks.

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