A little more than a month that has passed since the release of the
"Assembly" winter interview fully confirms its thesis about theapproaching revolutionary situation in the country. The Ukrainian
parliament is on the verge of a crisis: few deputies want to take
political responsibility for the bill on strengthening mobilisation, the
adoption of which has been postponed to April. Parliamentarians promise
that the bill will not include online summonses or blocking of bank
cards for evasion. From the calculations of the National Bank of
Ukraine, in January 2024 alone, the population withdrew 27.4 billion
hryvnias from Ukrainian banks. Why is this not a nationwide spontaneous
strike? Moreover, according to an NBU report published on March 11, the
volume of foreign remittances from people to the country has been
falling for the second year in a row. Over the past year, the amount
decreased by 7.8%, in 2022 - by 10.5% (that is, from $14 billion in 2021
to $12.5 in 2022 and $11.6 billion in 2023). Obviously, those who left
the "country of dreams" before the full-scale invasion take their
families with them instead of returning to them even after the war. At
the same time, according to the deputy chairman of the same NBU, Sergiy
Nikolaychuk, the expenses of Ukrainians abroad are much greater than the
transfer of funds to Ukraine: the outflow from the cards of the
population in the "travel" category amounted to $20 billion in 2022 and
$18 billion in 2023. The people vote against the state, which wants to
see them as dumb cannon fodder, not only with their legs but also with
their wallets.
Another example of how unannounced quiet sabotage can force the state to
unclench its jaws may be the plans voiced by the new commander-in-chief
Oleksandr Syrskyi to dismiss those who refuse to fight from the Armed
Forces of Ukraine, and using the money saved to double combat payments,
to 200 thousand hryvnias per month. The only question is, why then are
they going to mobilize hundreds of thousands of recruits if they are
preparing to purge the army of unmotivated personnel? One way or
another, no one knows what will be in the final voted version of the
bill. All we can say with certainty is that even if they manage to bend
the people by adapting the initial draconian version, the critical mass
of those who is not going to die for the money of the IMF, BlackRock and
Ukrainian respected citizens will not disappear anywhere - moreover,
this public can only become more dangerous.
Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, the new commander of the AFU Land
Forces, posted on March 24 the follow alarm about his subordinates:
"How will I surrender without a fight": why the enemy can defeat us with
the help of the Ukrainians themselves
The highest pilotage of the art of war is to destroy the plans of the
enemy and defeat him without using his troops in battle.
And judging by the last months, the Russians are very skilful in using
ancient Chinese stratagems of warfare. And some of our fellow citizens,
unfortunately, have lost the understanding that their acts and public
statements have turned into a powerful weapon in the hands of the enemy.
Who did not leave, does not leave, and will never leave his desire to
destroy Ukraine.
Let's recall what was written and distributed in our social networks two
years ago and compare it with what is happening now. From queues to the
enlistment centres and memes "if to serve - everyone is sick, but if to
fight - everyone is healthy", we reached the harassment of the military
from the enlistment centres and moral support for evading the defence of
Ukraine.
Two years ago (not having even a tenth of today's air defence equipment,
weapons, and experience of a full-scale war!) we, with all that,
perfectly understood how important it was to disrupt the mobilisation in
Russia. They rejoiced at every military commissariat set on fire there,
rejoiced at the queues of their evaders, who fled in panic to Georgia
and Kazakhstan.
From the unity and cohesion of that time, our space of news and
discussion has slipped (or rather, ossified!) not without the help of
our wonderful bloggers and free media. In the news channels, there are
many reports about "unfortunate drowning people in the Tisa" or "combat
Hutsul" squads.
But there are almost no materials related to the work of the enlistment
centres, the specifics of military service, the need to perform military
duty. Publications are not interested in such topics. Appeals from the
media for clarification of these issues are individual. Can't make a
flashy headline? Will the target audience hide their eyes?
A separate topic is the attitude towards military personnel of the
enlistment centres Today, the enlistment centres and their guard
companies are mostly staffed by servicemen who lost their health in the
war and were deemed unfit to serve in combat units. How did it become
acceptable to treat these people who went through hell as enemies and
call them "man hunters"?
Why is it that in all the materials about "illegal acts of the
enlistment centres" the most important emphasis is deliberately omitted:
first of all, illegal is the refusal of men from their constitutional
duty to defend Ukraine?
Not to mention the fact that all shots like "packing into a bus"
fundamentally (!) do not contain what exactly led to such consequences
in the behaviour of the heroes of the material.
In various social networks: YouTube, Facebook or TikTok, there are many
videos with content taken out of context. We are often reproached: "it's
your own fault, you don't change!" It does not. We change, we see our
shortcomings and work every day to become better, more understandable!
There is a lot of work ahead, and it will be much more difficult without
your help! After all, only together we will be able to withstand this
influx and ultimately Victory!
Break the alliances of the enemy, divide his battle formations - the
ancient Chinese war strategy teaches. Contrasting the army with
civilians is one of its points.
So before sharing the "flagrant story of rights violations" and the
plight of the "poor evaders", it's worth asking yourself: who is this
really helping to win the war?
Definitely not to Ukraine»
There have been so many examples of passers-by fighting off people
kidnapped by camouflage catchers in recent months that there is no point
in listing them here. Let's limit ourselves to more vivid stories.
In particular, on February 6, enlistment agents visited the Hutsul
village of Kosmach in the Ivano-Frankivsk region (the birthplace of the
legendary rebel leader Oleksa Dovbush). The residents did not greet them
very friendly. They were surrounded by a female group exclaiming that
"war has not been declared in the country" and that the visitors "will
be beaten." Subsequently, the women went out to an improvised protest in
the centre of this village. Rumours began to spread throughout the
settlement that a raid of the enlistment office was planned, so women
came out to stop it and also demand "fair mobilisation." In the centre
of the village, they began to stop cars, including the car of Ivanna
Grepinyak, who was traveling with her 6-year-old daughter. Protesters
said the woman was filming their gathering on her phone. They started
pulling her out of the car, tearing out her hair, taking away the car
keys, and hitting the child. Ivanna claims that the protesters accused
her of being an "information leaker" and coming to "hand over" local men
to the military commissars. The protesters moved away from Ivanna's car
only after someone exclaimed that this was not the vehicle they were
waiting for. Most of the protesters ran to the car that had approached
from behind, at which time Ivanna was able to leave Kosmach. The woman
went to the hospital complaining of injuries inflicted on her and her
daughter by protesters. Doctors diagnosed the girl with a contusion of
the soft tissues of the nose, and the 24 y/o with a probable closed head
injury. She was hospitalized. In turn, women in Kosmach say that
communication with the driver was polite. From their point of view, it
was Grepinyak who began to insult the residents, swore obscenely,
provoked, and subsequently ran over one of the protesters' feet.
The next day, a village meeting was held in Kosmach, where enlistment
officers tried to explain why and how the mobilisation was taking place.
However, people reacted emotionally to these arguments, demanding to
know from whom Ukraine needs to be defended. After fruitless
discussions, people began chanting "Shame!" It was barely possible to
avoid a physical clash between the military and the community - but that
was only the first bell. (Meanwhile, the regional enlistment centre of
Ivano-Frankivsk this week reported that 39 thousand people are wanted in
the region for ignoring summonses.)
On March 7, in the village of Ploska (about 5 km from the Romanian
border in the Chernivtsi region), Hutsul cavalerists attacked them with
the axes. According to the cops, those mentioned in the post of Pavliuk
came to the enlistment checkpoint and provoked the conflict. The viral
video shows two persons in camouflage talking to a man sitting on a
horse and holding an axe. Then, a SUV appears in the frame and hits one
of the servicemen. Then, getting out of the car, the driver stopped and
hit him in the forearm with the butt of an axe. Another attacker also
struck a serviceman in the shoulder with the butt of his axe. The men
damaged the windows of the enlistment car and fled. It was 28 y/o and 43
y/o local residents. Both were taken into custody under Part 4 of Art.
296 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism with particularly aggravating
circumstances) without right of bail. The article provides up to 7 years
of imprisonment.
An axe is the Hutsul weapon, including in the fight against
mobilisation. Like it had Dovbush and his insurgents (in fact, the
Western Ukrainian analogue of Robin Hood)
These are two brothers, their sister said that one of them lost a son
during the war. He went to the enlistment office, but there he got
beaten and threatened. And when they met again, the man decided to take
revenge. The second brother served in Donbass from 2015 to 2018.
According to the lawyer, he was shell-shocked.
According to the police and the prosecutor's office, on the evening of
the same March 7, in the village of Mala Rogan near Kharkov, a drunken
25-year-old local resident took an RGD-5 grenade from the balcony and,
in the presence of people on the street, threw it under the car of some
31-year-old female military living in that village. So he decided to
take revenge on her because of a long hostile relationship. Her blue Kia
Sorento parked near the house was damaged by the explosion. The woman
was at home and there were no injuries. Based on archives of social
networks, we found out that this woman is Maryana Malykhina, she earlier
terrorised the community, beating neighbours and locking them in the
basement. "This is a generally creepy person, causing a stir throughout
Rogan. She's always yelling that she's the navel of the Earth because
she's a warrior. She threatens everyone, even children, even her family
is afraid of her," locals characterise her. The guy was detained, he was
informed of suspicion on the same Part 4 of Art. 296 of the Criminal Code.
On March 21, in Novovolynsk of the Volyn region, two enlistment
employees visited the dormitory of a 50-year-old man due to failure to
appear on a summons to dispatch. He stabbed the visitor twice - the
first hit was blocked, and the second hit him in the stomach. After
this, he allegedly tried to cut his wrists; an ambulance was called to
the scene. The cops opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 121 of
the Criminal Code of Ukraine (inflicting grievous bodily harm), the
desperate man faces imprisonment for a term of 5 to 8 years. "Rambo:
First Blood" in the Ukrainian way...
Around midnight March 24, in Svitlovodsk of the Kirovograd region,
somebody threw two Molotov cocktails along the facade of the building of
the first department of the Olexandria district enlistment centre. The
fire that arose was immediately extinguished by its staff. No people
were injured. The attacker faces from three to ten years in prison.
Information is from the media, there are no official press releases.
On February 29, about 50 people gathered near the town hall of Buchach
in the Ternopil region because of the death of a 49-year-old man from
epilepsy on the same day. He got from the enlistment centre to intensive
care without consciousness. The deceased's sister says that he was
hospitalised twice due to epilepsy, which is documented. Most of them
were from the native village of the dead, and others from other nearby
communities also came. The mayor and the military commissar came out to
talk with them; the police and the prosecutor's office said that they
were conducting a check and that there were no signs of violent death on
the body.
On March 29, footage appeared from the Khmelnytsky region of angry women
mob breaking the glass of an enlistment bus during the distribution of
summonses in the Shepetivka district. A fat man in military uniform who
was in the car fled from it. This turned out to be somewhat more
difficult for them than dragging one guy into a bus in a crowd - they
have to call the police to the scene. In a group against a group they
are not such heroes!
Not about the war as such but also social struggle: on March 6 in
Korosten of the Zhytomyr region, thousands of pensioners came to the
town hall to protest the reduction of Chernobyl surcharges. A fight
broke out with the police at the rally, and an ambulance was also called
there. Additional payments to pension were reduced from 13 000 hryvnias
to only 3200 hryvnias. "The police stood at the door of the town
council. The deputy mayor came out to the people and said that the mayor
would come to them. But for some reason the people were indignant that
the mayor would not come, and they themselves began to break into the
town council. When they broke into the town council, there was a
scuffle. They did report one injured woman there, our police officer
immediately called an ambulance for this woman," stated the regional
police speaker. Then the protesters blocked the highway to Kiev walking
along the pedestrian crossing.
On March 25, in the Transcarpathian region, several dozens of women
blocked two roads near Mukachevo demanding to mobilise "only by a
civilised and legal method." Despite the fact that blockades took place
at pedestrian crossings so that there would be no reason to punish for
traffic violations, the cops tried to disperse them. "Everyone
understands that there is a war going on, we need mobilisation, we are
fighting for independence and for a better life for our children. But
such terrorist, bandit methods of mobilisation, when people in
balaclavas simply beat and kidnap from the streets - this is
unacceptable, since this is a violation of all rights and human
freedoms, which lead to distrust of the authorities and the
commander-in-chief. And in turn, this will lead to riots within the
state, which is what the rashist authorities are waiting for," the
organisers wrote on Facebook. During the protest, a line of cars (mostly
trucks) formed on the road. Certain trucks had loads related to the
military activities. Cops at once said that they identified the woman
organised the protest. Under Art. 279 of the Criminal Code (blocking
transport communications), she faces up to 3 years of restriction of
freedom.
By the by, one of the resonant examples of "uncivilised mobilisation" in
Transcarpathia happened to our compatriot from Kharkov. Yevgeny
Khabarov, born in 1996, was, from the words of his girlfriend Hanna
Sukhanova, kidnapped from a hotel near the western border and subjected
to severe torture in the enlistment centre of the Khust district. After
this he cut his wrists. The press service of the facility admitted that
on March 13 he was detained by border guards and handed over to them,
but attempted suicide that same night because he behaved inadequately
and took five gidazepam tablets. Logically, after taking five its
tablets (many people take this sedative in conditions of war stress),
the kidnapped should have been quieter than water instead of banging his
head against the wall in hysterics. Apparently, the headhunters just
decided that they could get away with it anyway, so just did not bother.
But in the case of bodily harm to their colleagues, somehow no one
claims that the enlistment officers injured themselves...Yevgen's
hematomas after "beating himself" and attempting suicide in Khust
Photo: su_hanna_/Instagram
In general, nothing surprising that so many recruits escape from the
army. As it became known in mid-March from the General Prosecutor's
Office of Ukraine, 4690 criminal cases of military escape from units
were opened only in the first two months of 2024. For comparison: in
2022, there were only 6 thousand cases of unauthorised leaving of
military units, in 2023 - already 16 thousand. At the same time, only a
small part of cases reach suspicion: 24.9% in the first year of a
full-scale war and 13.6% in the second. If the January-February dynamics
continue in 2024, the number of fugitives will officially amount to more
than 28 thousand. The revelations of the Ukrainian military in their
conversations:
"4th day from the arrival of all newly mobilised, 4th unauthorised
leaving of the unit. In order"
"Our mobist had a record: out of 11 recruits in a month, 8 left without
permission"
"After the east, when we were taken out for restoration, the number of
unauthorised leaving increased in many times"
"We had up to 10 a week consistently. Some came back, but still"
On the screenshot: a member of the Ukrainian special unit complained at
the end of December that drug addicted deserters from the AFU supposedly
cheated him out of money in Kharkov. Kremlin propaganda quickly took
this story, although they themselves had the same: near Moscow, short
before the same New Year, a former prisoner, sentenced to 9 years for
robbery and escaping from Storm Z, robbed and killed the 90 y/o father
of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church press service
From other side of the front, 21 fighters from the 155th marine brigade
of the Pacific Fleet after defeat during the assault on Novomikhailovka
in the Ugledar direction (south of the Donetsk region) locked themselves
indoors and refused to follow orders. They were threatened with
execution. As one of them said, about 150 people died for one forest
belt. From their video statement published on February 9:
"They don't consider us as people. A barrier detachment was deployed -
snipers who acted against us, their own. At the same time, we want to
write a mass appeal to all authorities so that this will eventually
stop. Yesterday 3 assault groups were sent, of which only 3 people
reached, no[fire]cover was provided. Those who were wounded had no idea
of evacuation - they got out as best they could. People who returned,
they were sent back with knifes, without weapons. Our command says that
we are meat. No one here considers us to be people. We just want this to
stop. To be considered people. We are not meat."
As reports the Russian opposition project "Go to the Forest," the number
of deserters who turned to them for help increased ten times from
January 2023 to January 2024. In January last year there were only 28 of
them, that is 4.7% of those who applied. Particular growth began in
October: 218 out of 1197 (18.2%). For November there were 174 out of
1481 (11.7%), for December - 253 out of 1426 (17.74%), and January of
this year set a record: 284 out of 784 requests, or 36%! The speaker of
this organisation, Ivan Chuviliaev, told the "Assembly" in winter that
desertion mainly occurs in the Kupyansk-Liman direction. However, the
geography is expanding.
Its founder, Petersburg liberal activist Grigory Sverdlin, posted on
March 12 the results of their campaign by February 23: "207 people who
want to desert have contacted us over the past 10 days. Thank you very
much to everyone who helped celebrate our Deserter Day! Who filmed
reports and wrote articles - in total there were 186 publications and
broadcasts, reaching almost 3 million people. Thanks to everyone who
shared posts, conducted excursions, film screenings and lectures in
Favor of "Go to the Forest," and posted our stickers in Russian cities
and even army units. Many thanks to the deserters who were not afraid to
record video messages to their former colleagues. Thanks to those who
donated to us - we raised $9,249, and this money is enough to help about
60 more people." As Chuviliaev explained to us, these 207 were divided
approximately equally between the Svatovo-Kremennaya line (as it was
usually) and Avdeevka. It is also noteworthy that in the comments under
the posts of this team visitors often draw attention to the need for the
same structure for those who refuse to fight for Ukraine. Due to the
much smaller size of Ukraine and the ban on travel abroad even for
civilians, the chances of success of such an endeavour are slim, and
yet, this foreshadows the possibility of stopping the carnage from below!
One way or another, for Ukrainians there is no point to wait until the
whole occupying forces run away - until this happens, there may be
physically no one left on this side. If even the head of state himself
says that he did not warn people from the front-line territories about
the full-scale invasion because panic would have set in and the national
currency would have collapsed, one can imagine how long this state is
ready to win a more favourable negotiating position with someone else's
blood. When the state hopes to survive at the cost of your death,
fighting it back becomes more necessary than ever before!
Caption to photo:This yellow Niva has become in Ukraine a truly popular
meme of resistance to state terror
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2024/04/08/war-against-war-is-starting-the-grapes-of-wrath-in-ukraine/
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