{"id":5098,"date":"2015-01-31T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T18:08:13","slug":"potential-conscripts-evade-draft-flee-country-amid-escalation-in-e-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5098","title":{"rendered":"Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/228131-draft-evasion-ukraine-military\/\" target=\"_blank\">Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The most recent military draft in Ukraine has been described as \u201cproblematic\u201d by Kiev&#8217;s army spokesman. The recruitment effort, coming amid ever more intense fighting in the country\u2019s east, sees a lack of enthusiasm on the part of potential soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The fourth wave of mobilization is problematic<\/em>,\u201d Ukraine army spokesman, Vladimir Talalay acknowledged on Saturday, according to Tass. \u201c<em>The biggest difficulties are seen in Sumy, Kharkov, Cherkassy, Ternopol, Zakarpatye and other regions<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/224347-ukraine-mobilization-intensified-shelling\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: New military draft starts in Ukraine amid intensified assault on militia-held territories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The comment comes as Ukraine\u2019s Joint Staff reported of the first stage of the draft \u2013 sending out conscription notices \u2013 being over. The military warn of blacklisting deserters and passing on the information to police.<\/p>\n<p>A little less than 7,500 Ukrainians are already facing criminal charges for evading military service, the country\u2019s Defence Ministry announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president\u2019s adviser, Yury Biryukov, was more specific earlier this week. He did cite preliminary draft statistics, showing evasion was primarily a problem in western Ukraine, traditionally a major source of anti-Russian sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential conscripts evade draft, flee country amid escalation in E. Ukraine The most recent military draft in Ukraine has been described as \u201cproblematic\u201d by Kiev&#8217;s army spokesman. The recruitment effort, coming amid ever more intense fighting in the country\u2019s east, sees a lack of enthusiasm on the part of potential soldiers. \u201cThe fourth wave of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[527,821,2118],"class_list":["post-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-military-draft","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5099,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}