‘Caught Dogs’: Putin mocked the struggle to recruit Ukraine’s army, Russians said voluntarily joins
During a meeting on Tuesday, Russian President Putin said that Ukrainian recruitment officer is catching people “like dogs” to enroll as volunteers in the struggle against Russia.He claimed that Russia enjoyed the stable flow of volunteers.“While Kiev officers are engaged in forcibly mobilizing-our people go voluntarily on the road, they go to themselves, they go on themselves … they are now catching 30 thousand people there, and we are voluntarily recruited in 50-60 thousand a month,” Putin said.After an increase in conflict with Russia in early 2022, Ukraine implemented general conversion, prevented most of men from leaving the country between the ages of 18 and 60 and initially set the draft age at the age of 27. However, with the lack of rising casualties and personnel, Kiev reduced the age of 25 last year and introduced difficult punishment for draft theft, as well as simplifying mobilization processes.Online-broadcasting videos show Ukrainian list officers, often supported by citizens police, chasing the streets and threatening them with military-grade weapons.This tremendous recruitment is being called ‘Busification’- a process where the recruitments are violently packed in minibus used by violent officers.Although the top Ukrainian authorities have consistently rejected reports of issues of mobilization as “Russian publicity”, the country’s army has recently accepted challenges in the process.Lieutenant General Ivan Gavariluk, Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said, “Business is a shameful incident, and we are doing our best to avoid it.”This year, Kiev launched a new recruitment campaign targeting men between 18 and 24 years of age, which is not yet under compulsory military service. Incentives are being provided: a million Hrvanvania (about $ 24,000) for one year of voluntary service. The campaign has been promoted through video and posters that break the payment in a relative item such as fast food food or popular in-game currencies, in an attempt to make the youth more seductive.
