Ukraine suspends consular services for military-age men, except to get them home
A Ukrainian serviceman walks past a recruiting poster in Kyiv on 23 April 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hundreds of thousands of military-age Ukrainian men are living abroad and the country faces an acute shortage of troops against a larger, better-equipped enemy nearly 26 months since Russia's full-scale invasion. Ukraine imposed martial law at the start of the full-scale war, banning men aged 18 to 60 from travelling abroad without special dispensation and beginning a rolling mobilisation of civilian men into the armed forces.
There have been numerous cases of draft dodgers trying to flee the country. The border guard service said it had detained eight men trying to cross into Hungary illegally on Tuesday. The law, which comes into effect next month, aims to improve and speed up the way the military mobilises civilians into the armed force.
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