Russian aggression against Ukraine has lasted for more than 800 days, and Ukrainians seem to be going through a very difficult time right now. Because of delays in the approval of US aid in Congress, the US probably still does not have enough resources to stop the Russians. Those in the east of the country are making the fastest progress in more than a year.
Among other things, Ukraine also lacks soldiers who would build defense positions faster. Although the Ukrainian parliament approved an amendment to the mobilization law, which calls up more men, the reality is that many of them fled to EU countries before mobilization. To the Baltics, to Poland, to the Czech Republic and to Germany.
Server Kyiv Independent pointed out a few days agothat in Germany, despite the announcement of the Kyiv government, the authorities will allow Ukrainian refugees to obtain a temporary residence permit and extend the validity of the residence permit.
The German opposition CDU is now coming up with a proposal that goes directly against the steps of the government coalition headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The CDU proposes deporting Ukrainians avoiding mobilization back to Ukraine. The server of the German newspaper Bild called the proposal controversial.
“We must help Ukraine bring back its prisoners! This may include helping to ensure that Ukraine can rely on men who have fled abroad but who can be used in the war,” Hessian Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) said on public broadcaster ARD.
In his opinion, it is important to “support Ukraine’s defense readiness.” “Ukraine also defends our values. In the end, they also protect us,” he added.
He emphasized that it is absolutely necessary for the German authorities to proceed uniformly on this issue. “And I’m very sure that will happen very soon. The results will be within a few days and weeks,” said the CDU minister. He called the topic “urgent”.
Around 200,000 Ukrainian men of military age currently live in Germany alone.
Ukrainian men in Germany have not been able to get new or extended passport documents at their embassy for a few days now, as ARD pointed out, the pressure on Ukrainians living in Germany without documents is growing. However, they hear that they should help their country. But some feel too old for that.
“My passport has expired. I am afraid that the employer will find out that I do not have valid documents. You can take the young men away, but what do they want from me?’ a fifty-six-year-old man asked in front of the public broadcaster ARD’s camerawhose face has been withheld because he spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Another man’s documents were allegedly stolen. And when he came to the embassy to get a new one. He heard that he will get them only and only in Ukraine.
According to ARD, the CDU proposal is to be discussed in the coming days.
However, in front of the public television cameras, it was also said that in Germany, according to the law, military service can be refused.
“And I think that forcing people who absolutely do not want to fight into it will not strengthen the Ukrainian army in the end. … But like I said, people who for whatever reasons, and they can be very, very honorable reasons, just don’t see themselves in a position to fight and maybe even kill, I don’t think they should be forced to do that. … One thing you should not forget is that some of them are people who have been in Germany for 20 years or more, who work here, who are long gone. Of course, some escaped only two years ago. And of course you can always say, ‘My God, they’re too cowardly to fight,'” German Green MP Anton Hofreiter said in front of the ARD cameras.
He stated that it would be better for the entire EU if it adopted a unified solution on how to deal with Ukrainians and whether to send some back to their homeland. He spoke these words in a situation where Chancellor Olaf Scholz refuses to provide the Ukrainians with Taurus long-range missiles.
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