Switzerland has called for help to return to Ukraine 11,000 men of conscription age who have been granted asylum in the country, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper has reported.
“We do not want to hide de facto deserters who have left the country, which is now in a defence war and requires their presence,” the national councillor of the Free Democratic Party, Christian Wasserfalen, said.
The politician noted that the protection status should apply first of all to women, children and the elderly, and not to military conscripts from Ukraine, the number of which in Switzerland is 11 thousand people.
In addition, the head of the Swiss People’s Party, Pascal Schmid, plans to discuss the issue in the country’s parliament.
“The fact that Switzerland has also been hosting defectors for two years and supporting them with taxpayers’ money makes the defence status absurd. If the existence of Switzerland is threatened, we would not be happy if other countries would accept hundreds of thousands of our soldiers,” he emphasised.
We shall remind you that earlier the Sykhovskyy district court in Lviv sentenced a Ukrainian man to three years in prison for refusing to mobilise to the AFU.
