What Future Awaits Ukrainian Military-Aged Male Refugees In The EU?

What Future Awaits Ukrainian Military-Aged Male Refugees In The EU? Authored by Andrew Korybko, Recent moves at the European and national levels bode ill for them... The European Commission proposed to exclude new military-aged Ukrainian men from the bloc’s special refugee protection scheme per Ukraine’s request to help replenish its lost forces. For background, new Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov shockingly revealed in January that 200,000 men have already deserted thus far and ten times more (2 million) are actively dodging the draft. Moreover, adult men comprise 26% of the 4.3 million Ukrainians in the EU for another one million potential conscripts. The forcible conscription policy known as...

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