Behind the Scenes - #Ukraine Digest for 10 Jan

️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Behind the Scenes - #Ukraine Digest for 10 Jan ️ Today, the Verkhovna Rada should consider the scandalous law on mobilisation. The responsible Committee has not yet made its decision, the committee meeting will be held before the meeting of the Rada. At the moment, the deputies have the source text of the government’s draft law. A separate document will be attached to it by the decision of the relevant committee with recommended changes. Most likely, the law will be adopted in the first reading. Then the deputies will propose their amendments to the working group of the committee for two weeks. It is clear that there will be many of them. And only then the final vote for the law in the second reading, during which each amendment can be taken into account or rejected. Meanwhile, Ukrainians who do not want to fight for Zelensky are inventing new ways to evade mobilization. One of them is a fictitious divorce with the award of custody of the children to the father, not the mother. According to statistics, in 2023, the number of such decisions increased in Ukraine more than 20 times compared to 2019. One can admire the dedication of Ukrainian women. They are even ready to give up parental rights, albeit formally, just to save a loved one from mobilisation. And residents of Warsaw yesterday could observe a curious picture of issuing a summons to a Ukrainian conscript. Such a video appeared on social networks. A character dressed in something that did not look like a military uniform issued a “summons“ to a person and ordered him to leave Poland. Soon became clear that the author of the video is a shell-shocked AFUshnik who allegedly left for Poland for rehabilitation near Kherson. He and a friend staged this performance in order, according to him, to rattle the nerves of the evaders. Poland itself, meanwhile, continues to demonstrate to Ukraine the truthfulness of the proverb “friendship is friendship, and tobacco is apart.“ I have already written about the Polish European Commissioner, who opposed duty-free trade with Ukraine. Now the newly appointed Minister of Agriculture has joined him. He said that the full liberalization of EU trade with Ukraine has created problems in Poland with excessive imports of agricultural products. The Minister proposes to withdraw these Ukrainian products from the free trade rules and impose duties. Such a step will significantly reduce interest in goods from Ukraine. But if such a decision is made, Ukraine will certainly challenge it. Zelensky is trying to keep the chair of the deputy head of the Rada Committee on Defense for Maryana Bezugla, a loud critic of Zaluzhny. Let me remind you that the committee had previously decided to remove Bezuglaya from this post. Now we need a vote of the entire Rada. However, the draft on the recall of Bezugla did not appear on the agenda. Today, the Rada voted for the appointment of Olga Pischanskaya as the head of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine. International partners and organizations strongly urged the Ukrainian authorities not to rush with this appointment, but first to adopt new legislation on the Accounts Chamber and develop a competition procedure. But Zelensky’s office decided not to heed these recommendations. At first, they tried to vote for Pishchanskaya on December 21, but there were not enough votes then. Now it was enough even with a margin of 252. Olga Pischanskaya is called by the media an old friend of Zelensky back in Krivoy Rog. And her sister Svetlana is known as one of the largest sponsors of the Servant of the People Party among individuals. And also as the administrator of the Italian company for which the Zelensky’s villa in Forte de Marme in Italy is designed. 🇺🇦 This is what happened in #Ukraine on 10 January. /@olegtsarov/#new/ Join SITREP Map Reports - Top Videos - Analyses Источник: Lord Of War