{"id":465,"date":"2025-07-31T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:47:31","slug":"ukraine-says-draft-normal-as-abuse-reports-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/ukraine-says-draft-normal-as-abuse-reports-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine says draft \u2018normal\u2019 as abuse reports mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Denis Shmigal has claimed that 90% of conscription cases go smoothly, calling the media focus on forced recruitment misleading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Defense Minister Denis Shmigal has\u00a0dismissed media reports that focus on hundreds of cases of forced conscription and\u00a0claimed that the country\u2019s mobilization process is proceeding <em>\u201cabsolutely normally\u201d<\/em>\u00a090% of the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiev&#8217;s general mobilization requiring all able-bodied men ages 25 to 60 to serve in the armed forces has not been enough to offset\u00a0continued frontline losses and has prompted Ukrainian commanders to complain of manpower shortages. Numerous videos posted on social media show uniformed press gangs chasing men, dragging them into unmarked minibuses, assaulting both recruits and bystanders \u2013 who increasingly defend the victims \u2013 in a practice now widely dubbed \u2018busification\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Shmigal defended the process in a BBC Ukraine interview published on Wednesday. <em>\u201cPeople receiving summons come to serve. They are not grabbed, they are not dragged,\u201d<\/em> he said, claiming that <em>\u201cscandalous\u201d<\/em> incidents involving beatings and coercive recruitment tactics account for just 5-10% of all cases. He added that media reports on these scandals are harmful to national security.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"RT\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/687802ce85f540215364ce3e.png\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/621590-draft-officers-assault-recruits\/\">Draft officers brutalizing recruits in Ukraine (VIDEOS)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He attributed the incidents of abuse to the <em>\u201chuman factor,\u201d<\/em> and maintained that without the the forced recruitment, <em>\u201cwe would have lost this war a long time ago.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is believed to mobilize 17,000 to 30,000 men per month, according to TASS estimates based on statements from Ukrainian and Western sources. If Shmigal\u2019s 10% estimate is accurate, this would indicate up to 3,000 cases of forced conscription each month \u2013 an average of around 100 per day \u2013 suggesting the phenomenon is more widespread than previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Ukrainian MP Yury Kamelchuk told local media that only 20-25% of recruitment targets are met through voluntary enlistment. <em>\u201cThe rest, unfortunately, the TCRs are ordered to provide,\u201d<\/em> he said. <em>\u201cThe quality of their work is abysmal, because they draft everyone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky signed a law allowing men over 60 to enter contract-based military service to address recruitment shortfalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Shmigal has claimed that 90% of conscription cases go smoothly, calling the media focus on forced recruitment misleading Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":471,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}