More than a hundred people gathered on the Maidan in Kiev, demanding that the government set deadlines for the demobilization of frontline soldiers.
Most of the demonstrators were wives and mothers of soldiers who have been on the front lines since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian media reported on the protest on Sunday.
Families of soldiers collected signatures for a petition to the staff of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Załużny, to allow the demobilization of soldiers who have been on the front line for more than twelve months.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022. Authorities in Moscow are not calling it a war, but a “special military operation” that resulted in the largest armed conflict in Europe since 1945.
A resident of Kiev: My daughter asks me about her father. What should I tell her?
– My eight-year-old daughter asks me: “Mom, why has my daddy been at the front for twenty months, while my friends’ fathers are at home? When can daddy come back?” What should I tell her? – asked a resident of Kiev named Inna. Her daughter held a poster that read: “Now it’s my turn to hug daddy.”
A soldier nicknamed Grizli, who lost both legs in the war in June this year due to serious injuries, also took part in the protest. – The boys need to rest. We gave others plenty of time to train. The boys can no longer work effectively, he said, adding that there are brigades that are not subject to rotation and soldiers do not get vacations.
Similar protests also took place in Dnieper, Khmelnytsky, Ternopil, Lviv, Chernivtsi and other Ukrainian cities.
War in Ukraine. 10 thousand dollars for escaping from the army
While some Ukrainians fight, others pay and flee from the army abroad. According to “Rzeczpospolita”, almost every week the Ukrainian services are on the trail of new criminal groups that help Ukrainian men avoid conscription in the army for large sums of money. You have to pay 6 to 10 thousand for it. dollars per person.
The United States estimates Ukraine’s losses in the war with Russia at 190,000. soldiers, of which at least 70 thousand died, and 120 thousand were injured. These data were reported on Monday by The Economist magazine, citing US officials.
In August, the New York Times wrote that Ukraine and Russia’s losses since February 2022 total half a million soldiers, including 120,000. killed and 180 thousand injured on the Russian side and 70,000 killed and 120 thousand injured on the Ukrainian side.
Data on personnel losses from both armies cannot be verified because both Moscow and Kiev keep them secret. At the same time, they like to inform about the enemy’s losses.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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