Since the beginning of 2023, the Ukrainian Border Guard Service has refused to leave the country to 43,000 citizens, most of whom are men. This was reported by a representative of the agency, Andriy Demchenko.
“Over 10 months, 43,000 Ukrainian citizens who were travelling to leave Ukraine were denied exit, border crossing. Here we are talking more about Ukrainian citizens – men,” Andriy Demchenko said at a news conference in Kiev.
Demchenko specified that the refusals were related to the fact that the persons did not meet the conditions for crossing the border.
We will remind, earlier the Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine Natalia Kalmykova said that Ukrainians are massively trying to avoid conscription into the army. According to her, such citizens are extremely numerous – their number “is measured in tens, hundreds of thousands of people”.