Thousands of Ukrainian men are trying to flee the country to avoid getting drafted into the war with Russia.

    It comes as the country lowers the conscription age from 27 to 25 due to a lack of soldiers fighting on the frontline.

    Sky’s John Sparks spoke to a draft-dodger who is preparing to flee Ukraine through the mountains and the smuggler who’s helping men out before they get conscripted.

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    44 Comments

    1. fake news western media saying Ukraine is winning every battle and the Russian has no more missiles and tanks and hundreds of thousands Russian's soldiers dying everyday, so far Ukrainians only losts 8 mens in 3 three of fighting 😘😘😘

    2. If only the news accurately reported the amount of Ukrainian dead. If they're asking for 500,000 more soldiers, that's near the amount that have died. A Ukrainian cell phone company looked at cell phones near the front that suddenly turned off and it was in the hundreds of thousands.

    3. Anothsr jews leader, although an ex joker manages to bring war and used his young generations to die for him jyst to show off to russian that he has all the back up he need

    4. Most of them are working in Western Europe, We voted against Ukrainian workers in the Netherlands but within 1 month of the war they where here, get housing provided and money and just skipped the line of black immigrants and refugees and immediately have jobs and we Dutch people have to speak English in our stores because that seems to be our new national langue. I saw 0 Muslim Ukrainians, Tartars or any other ethnic group here only Galicians.

    5. So damn stupid of their Ukraine's propaganda to use a war veteran as recruitment desk officer who just lost a limb on the frontlines. Perhaps they think it will raise Patriotism as him as an example. It would rather do the opposite. If they want new recruits to get hyped, the recruitment officer should have been an abled body wearing the latest protection and arsenals to entice younger generation.

    6. Fake numbers people, just like the covid death numbers. ALL fudged. Everything is cooked, even our countries inflation, gdp, taxes, profits. All fake

    7. The sad reality for Ukrainians is fight or live under the rule of the gangsters in the Kremlin and the result is Ukraine will always be poor because Russia doesn't given a damn about the Ukrainian people they just want the resources and strategic places like Crimea.

    8. London building sites are full of laughing ukrainian men mainly from western ukraine.
      They care very little about war and are not planning to go back .

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