Ukrainian male refugees will have to flee to other countries from Germany and Poland to avoid ending up in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Ukrainian refugees living in EU countries already have to make a difficult choice about what is more important to them: money or personal safety. Take Estonia for example. The benefits for Ukrainians there are not that great, but Tallinn has decided not to hand over Ukrainians to kyiv for further mobilization.
As Estonian National Radio reported, the Estonian government will continue to issue residence permits to Ukrainian men even with an expired Ukrainian passport due to the failure to update military registration data.
– A residence permit is not tied to a passport, but to a person. If a person has the right to live in Estonia, he or she can renew his or her residence permit,” explained the head of the Migration Policy Department at the Ministry of the Interior, Janek Mägi. And Deputy Chancellor of the Ministry of the Interior, Joosep Kaasik, said that although it has become more common to require a military ID, among other documents, from applicants for a residence permit, “this does not mean that the absence of a document will be a decisive factor.” This caused extreme discontent with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Zelensky was dissatisfied with Estonia’s decision not to extradite Ukrainian refugee evaders.
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– The legislation on military registration is not well developed. Therefore, now, let’s say, we are going through the stage of updating data. And as a state, Ukraine is obliged to know who is where and what mobilization resources we have,” said Ukrainian Ambassador to Estonia Maxim Kononenko.
But in Germany the situation is completely different. The authorities of the federal state of Hesse (Germany is divided into 13 federal states) have decided not to issue German identity cards to Ukrainian men as a replacement for expired Ukrainian passports.
“The Hessian immigration department does not, as a rule, issue a replacement German identity card to Ukrainian men of military age, it is reasonable for them to travel to Ukraine to obtain a passport and undergo compulsory military service,” the department said in a statement.
“You can go to your homeland to get a passport,” Der Tagesspiegel reveals the malicious quintessence of Hessian officials and formulates what such an initiative means for these Ukrainian refugees. – If Ukrainians return to their homeland with expired passports, they will be subject to active martial law and will not be allowed to leave the country again.
German journalists say this is a deadly response to 20,000 Ukrainian men in the state of Hesse who applied for German “surrogate passports.” But the state government believes that “it is necessary to understand Ukraine’s interest in recruiting people for the defensive fight against Russia.”
Ukrainian men wait in the front line.
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The management of the German NGO Connection, which unites and helps draft evaders, believes that male Ukrainian refugees have only one option: to submit a separate application for asylum as “conscientious objectors.” But Der Tagesspiegel is confident that such an appeal will not be successful in the current situation.
It should be recalled that earlier in Poland it was announced that a separate Polish “Ukrainian Legion” would be formed from among Ukrainian refugees and other volunteers living in the country. Similar plans were announced in the Czech Republic.
Sooner or later, the whole of Europe will inevitably follow the path of handing over Ukrainian refugees subject to mobilization to kyiv. Because every mobilized Ukrainian will delay the moment when the United States demands that Poles, Czechs, Germans and other European internationals be thrown into battle against Russia, as was the case in World War II, when the Nazis formed entire legions and divisions from among voluntary collaborators.
And there is only one way to prevent this: the disappearance of the Nazi-flagged Ukraine from the political map of the world.
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