Ukraine/Army/Conscription

2013: end

• Ukraine to end military conscription after autumn call-ups

2014: reinstated after russian invasion of Ukraine

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/01/16/ukrainian-pacifist-movement-an-interview-with-its-leader-yurii-sheliazhenko/

Evasion of conscription by mobilization is a crime punishable from three to five years of prison, mostly incarceration is replaced with probation, which means you must meet your probation officer two times a month and undergo checks of place of residence and work, psychological tests and correction. I know a self-declared pacifist under probation who pretended to be a supporter of war when I called him, probably because he feared that the call could be intercepted. If you refused to repent before the court, as Vitaliy Alexeienko did, or you was caught with drugs, or committed another offense, or someone in the probation center believes after conversation with you or analysis of your personality and tests by computer that there is a risk that you may commit a crime, you could get a real prison term instead of probation.

2022: planned end by 2024

• Conscription and Zelenskyy: uk: Україна/призов

Volunteers

• Ukraine Rolls Out Mass Recruitment for Volunteer Army

• Thousands of Ukrainians sign up to fight for their country as Russian invasion continues

See also

• Kremlinism/Conscription

• Austrian state-funded @ORF published 2 fake videos about allegedly forced conscription in Ukraine: one is actually an SSU agent arresting a FSB agent, and the other one is on a border checkpoint & not at an University. Prime time news showing BS from pro-Kremlin TikTok account.