Ukrainian men were protesting outside the Ukrainian passport service in Poland’s capital Warsaw Wednesday against the suspension of consular services – including the issuance of passports – for Ukrainian men of conscription age abroad.
The suspension was introduced yesterday after Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said services would be suspended until it introduces new procedures to comply with the new mobilization law, signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 16, limiting consular services for Ukrainian men aged 18-60 abroad without military registration
Videos are circulating on social media of huge crowds of Ukrainian men – 300 according to some sources – gathering outside a passport service to voice their dissent. Some said they would stay as long as it takes to receive their passports.
The Ukrainian news channel, TRUHA, reported on Telegram, that local police arrived but took no action, while some of the protesters agreed with passport service workers that they would be able to submit paperwork but no documents would be issued to them.
The only exception is the issuance of documents for them to return home.
“How it looks now: a man of conscription age went abroad, showed his state that he does not care about its survival, and then comes and wants to receive services from this state,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on the social network X (formerly known as Twitter) yesterday.
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“If anyone believes that while someone is fighting far away at the front line and risking his or her life for this state, someone else is staying abroad but receiving services from this state, then this is not how it works.”
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Comments (5)
These guy should head to the USA southern border and walk on in nobody will stop them and they will be given money, health insurance, voting ballot for Biden, retirement package, etc.
Ukraine, please do not alienate the very men who you want to encourage to return.
politicians in their armoured mansions on moscow musk's twitter telling young poor man to go to the trenches and die and making moral judgements about them if they refused yes this guy will never get killed because even the lead is too disgusted
Time for peace talks.
@PEACE TALKS, bullshit...Peace with Putin is not possible. He lies and breaks deals. You live a fairy tale.
Deal with him now or leave it for your children. Real life requires confrontation with evil. Evil uses peace talks to re-arm.
Cowards, go home and fight for your country. These douchebags who let their countrymen fight and dies for them are disgusting. They rather live a happy life elsewhere. COWARDS.
@OKA, Precisely that! It's like they leave behind someone else to die so that they could enjoy life abroad. But it doesn't work like this.