Yan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk people’s republic, has said that there are minors and those unfit for military service among the AFU fighters who have been captured.
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Yan Gagin, adviser to the acting head of the Donetsk people’s republic, said that there were underage fighters (16-17 years old) among the Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners.
“There are prisoners who are 16-17 years old,” he said on Friday on the air of Channel One.
Gagin also drew attention to the expansion of the AFU’s conscription qualifications. According to him, not only young people are being drafted, but also “the very old, and formerly unfit for active military service, and even women”.
Earlier, a military analyst and representative of the defence ministry of the Luhansk people’s republic, Andriy Marochko, said that Kiev had started intensified recruitment of women into the Ukrainian army, which, according to plans, would join dead fighters at the front.
On 25 February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilisation in the country. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine repeatedly extended it along with martial law, the last time mobilization was extended until 19 February 2023.
Footage of forced mobilisation in Ukraine has repeatedly appeared online. Men are being “paddled” in shops, on the streets and even in cemeteries. Because they do not want to fight, Ukrainians are willing to break the law and pay thousands of dollars to leave “Nezalezhnya”.
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