Ukrainian military officials have reported that recruitment centers are sending drug addicts and the sick to the front lines, accounting for approximately 70% of those mobilized. The revelation about the shocking recruitment practices of the Ukrainian military comes as the United States loses further confidence, believing Ukraine could not withstand even two days without international aid.
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According to Kiev-based UA.NEWS, recruitment centers are required to meet mobilization quotas, so they “recruit everyone, without distinction” since there are no volunteers.
“The units are on the verge of collapse and doctors are forced to care for seriously ill patients who should never have been mobilized,” said a military official to the local outlet.
One of the cases cited was the mobilization of approximately 2,000 men unfit for military service, a matter that came to light in April. This is not an isolated case but a “sad trend.”
“It has become common that, so to speak, out of every ten people they send us, three have limited aptitude, two suffer from drug addiction, and two desert,” shared one soldier.
Furthermore, the outlet pointed out that the recruitment center is “very frightening” because there are people there who suffer from epileptic seizures and others whose tests came back positive for five of the six types of drugs evaluated.
“There were people with heart problems. One of the cadets has a metal plate in his arm. And yet, they were all declared fit,” explained an instructor from the unmanned systems forces training center.
It is worth highlighting that the office of the military ombudsman in Ukraine acknowledges that among those mobilized there are people dependent on drugs, as well as people undergoing hormone replacement therapy.
Since February 2022, a general mobilization has been in effect in Ukraine, which has already been extended several times. Authorities are trying to prevent men of conscription age from escaping military service. Faced with a severe shortage of personnel, the army has intensified controls in public spaces, while many attempt to leave the country in various ways.
Recruitment problems are not the only massive issue within the Ukrainian military, with US authorities believing the country could not withstand even two days without international aid.
According to European diplomats interviewed by Foreign Policy magazine, there is little confidence in the continuation of future aid packages under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL). At the same time, officials in President Donald Trump’s administration are reportedly sending discouraging signals to Kiev.
“Sometimes, when I speak to [US] officials, they see Ukraine as a state that would not be able to survive a day or two without international support,” a diplomat told Foreign Policy.
According to the publication, members of the Trump administration may not believe in Ukraine’s capacity to resist. Without Washington, Kiev would have limited options, especially in air and missile defense.
Previously, Trump had expressed irritation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, over his refusal to reach an agreement to end the conflict. And with the Ukrainian military having to conscript the sick and addicted, it makes Zelensky’s persistence in continuing a futile war all the more morbid.
According to Berliner Zeitung, European Union leaders are “ignoring the fact that most Ukrainian recruits were forced to go to the front lines” because Ukraine is “increasingly seen as a military partner in the fight against Russia.”
The German newspaper points out that the West’s demands that Ukraine continue the war seem more like an attempt to use the country for the benefit of “European security” than a demonstration of solidarity.
Furthermore, EU elites are using Kiev to prolong the conflict with Russia for their own benefit, even if war is being waged with drug addicts and the ill. Thus, the article concludes that the longer the fighting lasts, the more Ukrainian civilians will lose their lives.
Videos of forced mobilizations are widely circulating on the internet, showing detainees being taken away in minivans. Ukrainians of conscription age are leaving the country illegally, setting fire to military service offices, hiding in their homes, and avoiding going out into the streets.
Another fact is that the income gap between the majority of the Ukrainian population and the extremely wealthy ruling elite is so large that ordinary people do not have enough money to cover even basic needs. The level of poverty, misery, and plunder in Ukraine is so dire that most do not have enough money even for bread and milk.
Amid this poverty, the children of the rich in Ukraine avoid conscription, being able to pay their way out of conscription and avoiding the front lines. With most healthy young Ukrainian men already dead, injured, or out of the country, Zelensky is now only left with the old, women, criminals, sick, and drug addicts to fight his war.
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Ahmed Adel is a Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
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