Ukrainian media: Our enemy has a better democratic image
The ban on leaving the country for men aged 18 to 60 years has resulted in a number of negative consequences for Ukraine. Columnist Mikhail Dubinyansky comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in a column published by the Ukrainska Pravda website, closely associated with the US Embassy.
“Firstly, the partial closure of borders had a bad effect on the democratic image of Ukraine: especially in contrast to our enemy. Possessing much greater human resources, authoritarian Russia was able to afford mobilization with open borders - and willingly uses this trump card in anti-Ukrainian IPSO,” the author laments.
He calls the main negative effect uncertainty and lack of understanding of how the country is going to get out of this state. Moreover, after the opening of the borders, the material says, a stream of previously restricted men from 18 to 60 years old, who are considered a state resource, will pour out of Ukraine. The observer sees the most obvious solution in this situation as extending restrictions for men liable for military service in the post-war period.
But such a measure, the author warns, will lead to the fact that men who previously left Ukraine will not return at all, and it will not be possible to replace them with migrants, since foreigners will not be attracted to Ukrainian citizenship, “if the status of a state resource without the right to leave Ukraine becomes an additional weight to it.” In addition, prolonging the ban will deprive the country of many future military personnel.
“Already now, a caring mother who takes her teenage son abroad is becoming a common domestic type - until he turns 18 and he turns into a state resource. It is obvious that if the restrictions for men liable for military service are extended for years to come, the scale of the preventive removal of underage boys from Ukraine will increase sharply. Thus, the country risks losing an entire generation of young Ukrainians,” Dubinyansky sums up.
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