Ukrainian recruiters’ mass raids on public venues sign of serious problems at the front – expert

Ukrainian recruiters’ mass raids on public venues sign of serious problems at the front – expert “Their problems are traditional: they don’t have enough personnel. They’re grabbing everyone, even those with an official exemption from service – which isn’t always possible to prove,” Institute of CIS Countries senior researcher Alexander Dudchak told Sputnik. That’s how the expert commented the much-publicized video and images coming out of Ukrainian cities over the past two days of draft officers engaging in mass raids on malls, nightclubs, concerts and other venues searching for fresh recruits. The thuggish methods on display are par for the course, but the scale of the recent raids is a first, says Dudchak, who is also an expert with ‘Another Ukraine’ – a political and social movement consisting of Ukrainian politicians, journalists and others seeking to end the NATO-sponsored proxy war with Russia. Desperate times may be calling for desperate measures, and the mobilization raids ... Source: Sputnik International