On Tuesday, the US Embassy in Ukraine issued a warning to US-Ukrainian dual citizens that they may no longer be able to leave Ukraine under the country’s new mobilization law.
Under martial law that was imposed in February 2022, Ukrainian males ages 18 to 60 cannot leave the country. Before the new mobilization law took effect, there were exceptions for dual US-Ukrainian nationals, but now they can be forced to stay.
“The US Embassy in Kyiv understands that, effective June 1, Ukraine has eliminated a ‘residence abroad’ exception that previously allowed certain Ukrainian males aged 18 to 60 to depart the country. After this change, US-Ukrainian dual citizens, including those who live in the United States, may no longer be able to depart the country,” the US Embassy said.
The Embassy said it was “limited in our ability to influence Ukrainian law, including the application of martial law and the mobilization law to Ukrainian citizens” and advised any dual US-Ukrainian nationals that are in the country to “shelter in place and obey all local orders.”
The Embassy continued, “If you are not currently in Ukraine, we strongly recommend against all travel to Ukraine by US citizen males aged 18 to 60 who also have Ukrainian citizenship or a claim to Ukrainian citizenship and who do not wish to stay in Ukraine indefinitely. There is an extremely high risk you will not be allowed to depart, even with a US passport.”
Ukraine is facing significant manpower shortages and is taking extreme measures to fill its ranks, including pressuring Ukrainian men living abroad to come back by cutting consular services. Ukraine’s parliament also recently passed a bill that allows prisoners, including murderers, to volunteer to join the military.
Phucking phascists.
Karma 🙂
People in Ukraine voted for Zelensky for peace. The neoNazis are another story. They were the ones who wanted to fight.
LOL, come on ED you live in the real world, what a country's majority wants has 0,zip,nada to do with what the US wants or the lengths it will go to get get what it wants 😉
Yanukovych was elected by a democratic majority, a particularly large majority in the ethnic Russian east, an overall majority none the less. Yanukovych considered what the EU was offering, what Russia was offering, and decided the best for Ukraine and it's people was to keep the country to be neutral, not tied politically to either, but trading with both. That didn't align with US's interest, so we deposed him and put the nazis in power, and a civil war broke out, shocker right?
Sowing conflict and division, creating chaos and making enemies of neighbors is what we do. The mass death and destruction is horrific, in a mass sense it’s unknowable unless you’ve been through a major disaster, we haven’t had war on our land since the civil war we don’t know what it’s like, the closest we come to actually understanding what we do to peoples lives is a natural disaster, like the NO hurricane, and that’s not close enough. We destroy individual lives and families, thats what most often brings me to tears, I feel what Hind’s mother feels when she’s talking about that beautiful little girl, or Justin Amash who’s lost 10 family members, or the Chicago trauma doctor who’s whole Gazan family, over 100 people are gone. That's what we do, we ruin individual lives, one after another after another after another until it looks and feels like Gaza, never accomplishing what we supposedly set out to do, in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, in Afghanistan, in Iraq. And then we just leave.
You know I can’t remember whether it’s in Laos or Cambodia that people, mostly children, are still dying each year from the unexploded ordinance we dropped so dropped so many bombs that country.
Yes, but my point was the karma is going to hit people who didn’t and now don’t want this. Where’s the karma for the architects of it?
Wait, my god, what was I thinking??? LOL, oh I see, I must have meant Karma for the comment above yours and commented to you out of habit, nk and still LOLing
Sorry to disappoint you. For the people who struggled to believe in God, we created Karma.
We created god first.
Yes! But the original sin was sex–not war?
But how is trapping people who don’t want to fight in a war karma? It’s not like Hunter Biden, genocide Joe, Murphy, dead McCain, Nuland, Blinken and others are putting their flesh in the game.
It’s like saying people against the genocide in Gaza deserve bad karma, not Netanyahu, etal.
I agree with you, brother. What I was trying to say was, Karma is not real. Generally speaking, we just like genocide and war. This is exactly why this antiwar website is not that popular. If we didn’t like genocide and war, 200 million Americans would visit this website daily.
People are propagandized within an inch of their lives.
Or sold their soul to the Devil.
Please tell me Lindsey Graham (R-Kyiv) is a dual citizen.
"Fight 'til the last Ukrainian!" …Wait!? wut …Okay, "Fight 'til the last Ukrainian unless they were also American!" I know it's 100% bull $hit. Is this the only problem you have with the entire scenario?
"Ukraine’s parliament also recently passed a bill that allows prisoners, including murderers, to volunteer to join the military."
Are we seeing the infancy of a new ' Dirlewanger Brigade ' of WW2 infamy? Or is this just a desperate ' Volksturm ' move to gain sympathy? Either way, someone's fascist roots are showing.
You do know that the idea of enrolling prisoners were started by the Russians almost 2 years ago and while the Ukrainians except hard criminals the Russians did not!?
No sympathy just Schadenfreude!
"Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another".