As we await US-Russia Alaska summit tomorrow (15), the MSM continues their painful process of recognizing the realities on the ground in the battlefields of Ukraine.
One of the most difficult realities to face is the realization that literally millions of Ukrainian citizens will not fight for their country and hide from the conscription officers.
A lesson in Ukrainian patriotism for the little ones.
TCC employees kidnap a father in front of a mother and child.
Hello Ursula @vonderleyen if you or your child has been conscripted to die in trenches!
Do you see these scenes in democratic countries? pic.twitter.com/rV9xXJLRZY
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) August 5, 2025
In Lutsk, members of the TCK kidnapped a man from a car and threw him into their “bus” for mobilization!
Eyewitnesses report: TCC’s lawlessness is spreading fear throughout Ukraine! pic.twitter.com/hhTqOgL1rM
— Tibo91 (@Tibortibor15) August 5, 2025
French politician horrified by footage of forced mobilization in Ukraine
The leader of the Patriots party, Florian Filippo, posted a video on social networks in which TCC officers harshly detain a man on the street in Dnepropetrovsk.
“The Euro-Atlanticists’ determination to… pic.twitter.com/IC0KjEDMJM— S p r i n t e r (@SprinterObserve) June 5, 2024
‼️Without shoes, but at least alive!
In Odessa, a mobilized guy jumped out of a TCC van while it was moving. #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/xwHv48cLth
— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) August 11, 2025
More than half a million Ukrainian men of military age have fled the country, while many others are still in hiding.
Add to that the desertion epidemic plaguing the Ukrainian forces, with hundreds of deserters abandoning their positions at the front every single day.
Russian forces have breached Ukrainian defenses near Dobropillia and advanced nine miles into territory around the city of Pokrovsk.
Ukraine deployed Azov brigade troops to face the attackers, but the situation remains ‘chaotic’.
The Telegraph reported:
“’The entire defense line is like a sieve’, wrote Stansislav Bunyatov, a Ukrainian serviceman and blogger, a sentiment echoed by Borden Krotevhych, former chief of the Azov Brigade. Krotevhych wrote: ‘This chaos has been growing for a long time, worsening with each passing day. A stable line of combat, as such, effectively doesn’t exist’.
Ukraine is ‘visibly losing the war’, says Konrad Muzkya, a Polish military analyst, largely because of the manpower crisis. So why won’t men like Pavlo, 35 and a new father, enlist? ‘Probably because I am afraid’, he says, with disarming honesty.
‘Afraid to die or, worse, lose my mind and become a burden to my family. Afraid to leave my family in poverty. Afraid that my daughter will grow up an orphan. Afraid of being captured and tortured for months’.”
Deserters of Zelensky’s army for 2025:
January — 18,145
February — 17,809
March — 16,349
April — 18,331
May — 19,956
June — 17,082
July — 17,544-> The amount of deserters in Zelensky’s army seems to roughly equate the amount of (forcefully) mobilized soldiers per month. pic.twitter.com/4v6JiPEuUz
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 12, 2025
At this point in the war, besides the increasing troop shortage, Ukrainians have also lost the drone supremacy they had in the beginning of the war.
“Worse, Ukraine’s infantry is shrinking, with desertions and casualties exceeding the 200,000 mobilized last year. Around 650,000 men of fighting age are thought to have fled Ukraine. Others hide, like Pavlo, or bribe draft officers and army psychiatrists for health exemptions.
[…] The desertion crisis is even starker. Unofficial estimates suggest more than 400 soldiers are abandoning the battlefield daily – exhausted by years of war, frustrated by rigid, top-down command, and disheartened by those avoiding service.”
Kiev command strips technical units to fill the gaps in the front line defenses, as vital mechanics and radar operators are sent to die as infantry.
Read more:
PANIC IN KIEV: Russian Forces Breach Ukrainian Defenses, Make a Major Breakthrough in Donetsk Region
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