Insults and resistance: On the streets with Ukraine’s military recruitment officers • FRANCE 24
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- As the war drags on and Russia makes advances on the frontlines Ukraine is increasingly struggling to recruit enough fresh troops, with polls suggesting many of those eligible to be drafted would rather not fight. Yuriy Pikhota and Pavlo Pimakhov, two former frontline soldiers who now work as military recruitment officers say they are frequently met with insults and resistance as they patrol the streets of Kyiv to check people’s status in regards to military service.
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On Cam: peace and calm
Off Cam: abducting and kidnapping
Coward.
That how it is. Conscriptors doing the same thing thorough history. Nowadays we have camera so they've become more wellmannered on camera
Fr dragging them in the street in front of the public, many of them recorded. And call themselves 'democracy'. Do Ukrainians really approve of this? If not it's just a dictatorship with people have no choice
As if russia is peaceful at doing one.
They are "meat grinders"....those men will all be dead once in the military for sure.
Send Johnson. Boris Johnson.
And Joey Cannibals Biden
Best answer here! I bet that deal they axed in early 22' sounds like a beautiful, far away dream now.
Send Joe Biden and his cabinet
I don't blame them. The only thing being "protected" at this point is Lockheed Martin profits.
These was before camera so they was decent. Everybody knows what they are really doing.
"For the first time, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom has published an analysis of media pluralism in Ukraine to examine the current state of media pluralism in the country in 2022 using as a reference the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) tool. Report was prepared by the Ukrainian local team lead by Dariia Opryshko at University of Münster.
cmpf eui eu/ukranian-media-landscape-in-2022/
there was consolidation among nationwide TV channels
In terms of political independence, in Ukraine, state authorities and local self-government bodies have the right to establish television and radio organizations, but not to be founders (co-founders) of print mass media. In any case, since the Russian invasion, state influence on media increased, which is a natural consequence of the unification of nationwide TV channels. Still, the impact on other types of mass media remained relatively lower.
Snatching people off the streets and sending them to the front with half day of training with no bullet's 😂😂
@@RUTHLESSambition5 Exactly, they don't have the guts to show what they're actually doing. Quite a dishonorable thing to do.
I work with Moldovans, they know people both in Russia and in Ukraine, including family members. The cities in Ukraine have become something dystopian from what they tell me, there are no men walking in the towns. The same story is about to begin in Russia too, I pray that this situation finds a realistic solution that is not a ten years total massacre
I like when the recruiter said he was on the front line in 2015
I have seen videos where mothers and sisters are fighting to save their sons and brothers from forceful conscription. Ukrainian government is the problem of people of Ukraine .
Zelenskiy elected term ended on the 20th of May! Forced conscription is not this polite when the media is not around.
Exactly.
Videos all over the internet of men being dragged out of their homes and cars.
Conscription is forced that’s why it’s called conscription
His term would end if russians leave ukraine
@@Gumpmachine1 wars are fought for country safety an not not for pupets greeds.
Nobody wants to fight for the interests of others. This war isn't about Ukraine's interest, it's about western interests
Close but not quite
well you should have told that to daddy supreme being putin
Wrong. It's for globalist interests. Globalists who serve their own interests.
@@purplebeard806 Explain then?
Thank you.
Today, Ukrainian media reported that a group of 32 people took a truck and made military license plates for this vehicle. Then they drove this car to the Ukrainian-Hungarian border and broke through this border into Hungary; in Hungary they abandoned this car and surrendered to the Hungarian police. I also heard that many people try to swim across the Tisa River and escape to Romania, some people buy wetsuits for this.
Freedom at its finest in Western nations....
After all Ukraine is a democracy, isn't? 🥴
The battle to recruit fresh canon fodders.
😂😂😂
Lmfao
1:57 "we are nation of warriors"
There are no warrior begging for weapons 😂😂
Right...
This makes absolutely no sense
DIE FOR ZELENSKY? 😂
Zelensky isn't even president anymore, his mandate expired 😂
Yes this is the reality, I’m with the people that say NO, peace is the solution, this war is lost.
Yet they claim ukraine is "winning".
They said we were winning in Vietnam too! Up until the helicopters were taking people off rooftops.
@@awen777The French army was badly defeated at Dien Bien Phu
@@indrahikmawan The Chinese got seriously whooped in '79' I believe.
Winning in telegraph and sun and UATV🤣🤣🤣🤣
2.5 years and the Russians can barely make any progress without massive meat waves.
I've seen so many videos of these people abducting people it's disgusting. Shame on them.
Why doesn’t Zelenskyy go to the frontline of the war!
Just send french kids to Ukraine 😂
Macron doesn't have kids
😂😂😂
If they forced you to go, then surrender to the first Russian you see, they'd let you live!
They stave and beat them bro….I was in the Ukraine when the war began……all soldiers on both sides are canon fodder
Life is good to live and not to die ; you are right on points
Tell me you dont read without telling me you dont read.
I would surrender
@@user-wg8jb2ir6i Then you go and sing up "tough guy" . You like to see Ukranian blood spilled , right ? You people make me sick !!!
You can't force people die protecting Maidan coup.
Ivan, study ingrish
@@alfredneuman6911
Is that what you tell Ukrainians?
@@lg2058 "little buddy" gives you away as a Russian agent. Here is Lie #1: Russia has 6000 nukes. Russia invaded Ukraine "in self defense".
@@lg2058......Yes your master Putin invaded Ukraine. Not the other way around. But nice try Igor.
sad little person. But old.@@alfredneuman6911
The recruiter admitted that the war started in 2014 (by ukrain)
not "recruitment" more like kidnapping... that guy was out for a walk with his child now he is on the front line
But Ukraine 🇺🇦 lose just 31,000
And 400k missed
Rest are partying & sleeping
No, only 1,000.
Don't forget, ghost of kyev still invincible.
Gaza showed us the true meaning of "Western values." Sorry, Ukraine, you won't see me dying on your battlefield. 😢...
Love your comment brother 👍 spread the truth 🙌
They both ZIONIST
Weak excuse, woefully easy to find something you don’t like with any system
Feel free to sign up.@@Gumpmachine1
true
Don't blame them. Who'd want to go fight Russians? That never ends well.
The Russians have been getting themselves killed at rates anywhere from 5 to 1, to now around 8 to 1.
Russians have lost 500K.
@@the__source How do you know? Everyone is making up numbers
@@the__sourcesource = cnn 🤣🤣🤡
Those willing to fight Russians had done so 2 years ago. The remaining just want to stay alive.
And when you're forced to the front line remember to surrender and survive this made American game 🎮🎮
NATO go home! Leave Ukraine alone!
You should ask if Ukraine wants NATO to stop aiding Ukraine
NATO isn't there......Russians have come and it's long past time for them and their corpses laying around to go back to Russia.
LMFAO
China be quiet
So it can be enslaved by Russia.
These guys get three weeks "training" before being sent to their doom. Big article in Washington Post last week about the existing troops complaining how the new conscripts barely know how to shoot. This is a civil war they could have settled amongst themselves; NATO had all their financial interests in grain and natural gas and once Western money was tied up in Ukraine it became a proxy war.
Do you have a link to article? Not doubting you, just interested in reading it.
Russia invaded. That isn't a civil war. That is a foreign invasion. You can't claim Nato is the aggressor or that it is a civil war when Russia invaded a democratic foreign country.
@@MrVTetagoogle “Basic training in Ukraine is barely covering the basics, commanders say” and WP article will pop up.
Arrestovych mentioned it as well on his recent streams. He said they frequently get sent to the battlefront within 1-2 weeks with no training(the have almost no bullets, grenades and other weapons for them to practice) and then they get hit or killed within a next week.
Also the lower standards for conscripts including mentally disabled.
Some poor blokes went from conscription to strewn on the battlefield in 3 days. They're cannon fodder.
the only democracy without an election. way to go democracy
An "Election" during a Full out WAR scenario would be Very Troublesome to say the VERY VERY LEAST!!!!.
The amount of Resources and WOULD be required would be Huge, added to the Chaos of finding out WHO is a Real "Citizen".....and Not "Commie Stooges".
Ukraine has been invaded by fascist ruSSia.
Do you understand the concept of martial law?
Seems like all they do is hide in the capital and bother civilians who CLEARLY don't want to fight. You are the soldier u go fight
There are videos of literal fights between army officers and citizens
Martial Law prevents this unfortunately
Forcing people to fight for Gangsters
We have seen footages of people swimming to get away and those that are simply thrown into vans in the eastern parts of the country including Odessa. Most of the recruits have been from the eastern part of the country
And, where is Odessa?
@@WalterVetterli In the south🤡
Images soft for France. Marketing.
The reality is brutt, so far away violent.
sad where is GENDER EQUALITY ... how come Feminists are not complaining now ... about EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ??
Thats the real question... like some feminist once said " Women belong in all places where decisions are being made"
US senators said Ukraine war was the best investment ever.
Why dont those recruiters go to the front anh let women do the recruiting,
What's a good question 😂😂😂
Because you need a male figure there it’s psychological.
Because they are azovites that were pulled out from the frontline to drag people into vans. Women can't do that.
@@Norzel7exactly.
You need a man. It is a psychological aspect. A women commands less authority and she doesn't have the strength to subdue a man in hand to hand combat.
A group of women would NOT be able to restrain a man and drag him to the recruiters office.
DEMOCRACY !!!!!!
This is fighting against the Russian imperialism
Democracy in Zelensky style
You are free to go to Russia!
Actually it is democracy. That's the problem. Democracy has no respect for the individual, it's about the 51%.
@@MaramaoMaramao you are only free to go to the front line if you are Ukrainian, the borders are closed, the elections have been cancelled
Where are the equal rights women, they should sign up asap😂
Conscription is naked slavery. People have rights.
Why do they need machine guns when communicating with their population?
Who did this guy fight with in 2014? With civilians of Donbass? For this he received SMO.
lol. Recruitment officer? They usually do not say "I will give you a summons to come to the military office"
It’s not recruitment is abduction
Can we talk about they sent a summons to a severely disabled ukranian citizen? They are not allowed to be drafted
their pulling 60 yrs old men off busses...
When is the next election in Ukraine so these people can choose whether their country continues on this path or seeks peace? Nobody knows because it's not that kind of "democracy".
In the world of feminism and women rights no women are being forced to go and fight
Now, I will declare am a woman, inside,🤣🤣🤣🥳🥳🥳
Why aren't YOU at the frontline? Answer: "i was. I was in israel oppressing Palestine"..😅
Being forced to joint military to defend democracy and freedom, how ironic 😂😂😂
This is why the Russian military has created the Volga hotline for Ukrainian soldiers. You can call if you want to surrender. An arrangement will be made.
Choose life, call the Volga hotline.
"Nation of warriors and creators". What exactly has Ukraine created??
80% of western europe's wheat/barley imports, Beer/bread/noodles would practically disappear in european supermarkets, a lot of sport clothing and copper wiring for our industry are imported too.
@@skipstopstartit's okay Russia can replace that
What politics do to us is horrible! Forced to fight for problems we didn’t even participate to make, and for the interests we will never live to serve.
To those saying, why I won't defend my country. I will defend my land on my own terms when it comes to that, but I will not be used as cannon fodder which is what most of the infantry is.
that aint true buddy, they wanted this...look up "Москаляку на гиляку" - Ukrops wanted this war for so long they finally got it
Real democracy😂
Zelensky dictator.
Bloody Clown
It is offence against human rights!
I dont see rich people son and politican son do it
Are the rich on the front lines fighting?
They ran away a long time ago
I made some dental fillings to a Ukrainian guy 1.5 years ago. The guy even left me a 10euro tip 😅
That was in Bulgaria
They aren't showing any of the many vids of violent street kidnappings by the "meat catchers".
What the last guy said was just downright dumb. How can a nation decided to stop defending itself just because someone from the other nation said something on tv?
Well, when your nation becomes a threat to another one, that someone in the other side must react to protect themselves. That's what the US has been doing since forever, that's what a nation should do to exist.
@@esQmo please Google 'list of US wars', click on the Wikipedia link and then go to the '21st century' section. Now read the entire thing carefully before posting nonsense.
Ukraine could today be into it's 10th year of peace & prosperity under the Minsk Accords, making tons of money from East & West, suffer no war & no loss of territory at all. Nordstream would have Europe booming. Instead by following US advice and promises Ukraine is being decimated on the front line, depopulated by emigration, and operated as a military cabal. Europe is getting crushed by high energy cost. Most of the world's nations understand what's up & have sided with Russia's right to prevent US regime change.
There are always boneheads who see nothing wrong with fighting for some bs ideology, rather than your ideology being peace & prosperity. They are the recruiters, the flag wavers, and eventually they comprise the firing squads.
Uncle Larry says fight for Black Rock!
I thought Ukraine is winning?l
They are
@@Joshpox your funny🤣😂🤣😅
Zelensky's friends will be the only people remaining at the end in Ukraine.
Not in Ukraine. They will live happily in their mansions in the USA and Europe
He has friends ?
As they lord over the new population of migrants sent to replace the Ukrainians.
@@charlesloko7698 Yes the ones he paid with all the US aid money.
@@gibbs677bg Aaaaah, I forgot those, but I thought they all are in Monaco and places. 🙂
We are nation of “warriors and creators”! LOL! 😂They also claim that they dug out the Black Sea in pre-historic times! 😂
Sent zelensky
Macron also, maybe that guy becomes very talkative and aggressive when AUKUS plays a few painful tricks
Stop war save innocents
How on earth those which are dragged by the arms to join military, will have a will to fight in trenches????.
This is the same policy which Iraq followed during 7 years of war with Iran. The result was they were surrendering to Iranian army by thousand, unwilling to fight knowing they get killed while then president’s sons were enjoying luxury life in Baghdad .
why these people fight someone else war
They don’t want to fight for Blackrock , leave them alone
I mean nobody want to be meat grinder for the west..they are not stupid..
Fabs 3000 who will go against that
'I was there in 2014'
👍 Yeah... thank you for your service, bro 🙄
0:58 He's been at the front in 2014? What front? The media said the war started in 2022. Something doesn't add up.
He was killing Russians in Donbass back then.
Kidnapping and then no training kinda ridiculous
Who were they fighting against in 2014?
Civilians women children and men in the Donbas
If I were a Ukrainian man I wouldn't join the army and I would leave the country obviously.
I have seen the "warrior and the creator" sending others to certain death. For the 30 trillion in minerals Lindsay Graham has just told us about.
Ukros are nato mercenaries.
I can think of another country not too long ago patrolling the streets and checking "papers" it didn't end too well for them either.
poor people, gun fodder for Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin etc. to make more hundreds of billions
1:55 Nation of Creators? What?! What did the Ukrainians create? Ukraine has not built a single factory since 1991, all use Soviet equipment only.
Recruitment Officers ??? More like Kidnappers
Getting forced to the front line of a war they didn't want or vote for
Get more NATO soldiers they have millions
When the camera is off you are forced at gun point, some good country you are going to fight for NOT
If you can dodge a draft,
You can dodge a drone.
Kiev regime
Die for politicians? Patriotism won't feed your family bro
Tell me it's a dictatorship withouth telling me it's a dictatorship.
When you dont have any more soldiers is becauuse you lost the war
normally its forced conscription. I guess with the cameras about they couldnt do the normal procedure.
Non Sens. Not possible to force somebody to fight a combat he does not believe in.
Recruit MAcRon and his french followers, you will have a lot of soldiers🤣🤣🌍🌍
And this is why we cannot give up our second amendment
Poor ucranian people,victim of their self.
So many people have died. So many more are going to. It's never to late to sit at the negotiation table and find compromise.
They are nato mercenaries.
Ukraine: "Help we are winning!"
it's one thing to call on people for a draft... it's another to walk around like fascist Nazi's demanding to see people's paperwork... it's no wonder Russia looks at you the way they do... if your people don't want to fight then you need to figure out how to make dialogue work... if you can't then it's war until you win or lose... this isn't some magic fairy tail game where everything is going to go back to the way it was at the start.
"Military recruitment officers"....who use choroform, plastic zip ties, and a white van.
When the pure lie have appeared in front of me - then I saw the truth behind it
Ukraine: “we’re doing fine, the front is stable”.
Ukrainians: “fine, you don’t need me”.
Duh. That's a dumb comment. Yiu need reserves 🤡😂
Why would they need troops, if russia only has ammo for two weeks left?
How can western media try to sell this as a good thing?
What a lie, show how civilians are kidnapped by the Ukraine army!!!!