‘Everyone's afraid to die’: Struggle to recruit soldiers in Ukraine turns violent
Aggression against recruitment officers has become increasingly threatening, police say.
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"These officers are hunting for people on the streets and sometimes using quite violent methods."
— Oleksandr Honcharenko , Politician
"We started to suffer a lack of manpower on the battlefield, constant losses."
— Ivan Stupak , Academic
Key People
He is a military analyst.
He is a university professor exempt from the draft.
Mykhailo Fedorov is the Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
He is an opposition MP in Ukraine.
President of Ukraine who attended a summit in Yerevan.
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Aggression against recruitment officers has become increasingly threatening, police say.
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