The Border Guard Service of Ukraine daily detains men who want to avoid military service. According to the portal nowiny24. pl, during several days of the war, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine provided information about several groups of men detained on the western borders of Ukraine, including with Poland, who wanted to flee their homeland. Most of them tried to help criminal gangs, reports Polish Radio..
Fares paid to smugglers to cross the border start at $3,000 per person.
Just yesterday Ukrainian border guards detained twelve men. For attempting to evade military service, they will be prosecuted - they face several years in prison..
On February 24, the day the Russian aggression against Ukraine began, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization. According to it, Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from traveling outside the country.. Everyone who is not yet in the regular army was assigned to one of the three mobilization groups.