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Ukraine: Mass Army Desertions as conscripts flee losing slaughter in ethnic Russian areas.

This text comes just after the 107th anniversary of the October Revolution, with its self-demobilization of the Russian army, which led to Russia’s withdrawal from World War I.. Today Ukraine is repeating this path.

Author Assembly.org.ua /via libcom from Thunderbird on November 11, 2024 via thefreeonline / https://wp.me/pIJl9-EKj Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

“The Ukrainian regime is still sponsored by western billions and endless armaments under ultra nationalist racist military rule. By now any man who can has fled the state or is in hiding. Opposition parties, media and elections are banned and the military is finally running out of conscripts with ‘half a million’ dead or injured. . The War is by now a pointless massacre as Russia slowly controls the disputed eastern oblasts, and whole brigades, many old, ill or totally untrained, are refusing if ordered to pointlessly fight on to the death without support.” November 2024

Milan

Demonstration at the Ukrainian consulate in Milan to celebrate Deserter’s Day. photo. anarchist blog Wild Fields,

Ukraine: From a Wave of Desertion to Spontaneous Self-Demobilization

“In the lead-up to the US elections, the flight of personnel from the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the middle of 2024 took on the character of an avalanche, threatened to leave the regime without an army in the near future.

According to Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General, from January 2022 to September 2024, almost 90 thousand criminal proceedings were opened because of such facts, and the majority were initiated since the beginning of the current year: 35,307 out of 59,606 cases of unauthorized leaving of a unit (Article 407 of the Criminal Code) and 18,196 out of 29,521 cases of desertion (Article 408 of the Criminal Code).

The largest number of desertions was registered in the regions of Zaporozhye (6,144), Kharkov (5,771) and Donetsk (5,318), while the regions of Donetsk (8,574), Dnepropetrovsk (3,308), Zhytomyr (2,433) and Lviv (2,170) are leading in terms of cases of unauthorized leaving of units (SZCh in Ukrainian). These are only the cases to which the authorities reacted.

However, even of these, only 4,698 cases of unauthorized leaving and 442 cases of desertion reached the court. 2,592 and 414 cases were closed, respectively (during the same period).

9,487 criminal proceedings were registered in Ukraine under the mentioned two articles in October 2024. For comparison, in January 2024, there were initiated only 3,448 criminal proceedings. And in total, from February 2022 to November 1, 2024, already 95,296 criminal cases were opened.

(The composition of one brigade in the Armed Forces of Ukraine is from 3 to 5 thousand persons.) Although both these articles may apply not only in the AFU, much less is heard about escapes from other Ukrainian armed structures, as, in particular, our interlocutor did, who deserted from the State Border Guard Service.

Since August, information has been leaking out from time to time about people who escaped their units before being sent to the Kursk operation. For example, the following was reported about the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade, which took part in last year’s southern counteroffensive and is considered an elite and one of the best equipped units.

A man reacts during the funeral ceremony of Roman Ratyshnyi, a Ukrainian public activist and service member, who was recently killed in a battle against Russian troops, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine June 18, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

“On August 10, I found out that my acquaintance is in SZCh (unauthorized leaving of units) . They had to go to the Kursk [region], he says that more than 40 people left everything and went home. He says: “they gave me some dispatch letter, I looked at it and realized that it’s a one-way ticket.”

He doesn’t live in the place [where he is officially registered], got a job, I don’t know exactly how he got out, he doesn’t really want to talk about it. He has a normal medical form, he was a sergeant in the army, by conscription. He was taken near the house, but he wouldn’t budge, and then I learned that he’s at home.

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Anti War resistance in Ukraine and Russia – Leader of Kiev Conscription extortion gang found dead

All men in Ukraine are liable for conscription, often extended till they die. Those still free are hunted down as the West demands military results in the hopeless war. … (see below for ‘Conscription in Russia)

on 21 Oct, 2024 by HomeRussia / Autonomous Action / libcom org / via thefreeonline – https://wp.me/pIJl9-Evs T’gram- t.me/thefreeonline

Ukrainian police at the scene of the murder of Gennady Beybutyan. ©  National Police of Ukraine

A Ukrainian businessman, involved in the country’s controversial military draft enforcement, has been found dead near Odessa with gunshot wounds, local media reported on Sunday.

 The victim, identified as car dealer Gennady Beybutyan by journalist Irina Grib, led a so-called volunteer group that worked closely with conscription officers in locating and apprehending potential evaders.

Support Russian and Ukrainian War Resisters – Over Half A Million Ukrainian Men Fled To Escape Conscription- EU.

According to reports, Beybutyan’s group, the “Law Enforcement Assistance Unit,” has played a key role locally in Kiev’s aggressive conscription campaign.

Ukrainian media outlet Strana.ua reported that the group engaged in beating suspected evaders and smashing car windows in their attempts to stop vehicles for conscription checks

.650,000 flee Ukraine to escape forced draft – 74% happy to give up citizenship to avoid suicidal conscription

According to multiple sources, the group was involved in schemes where potential conscripts could bribe their way out of military service.

 The “volunteers” were reportedly instrumental in identifying those willing to pay to avoid the front lines. The unit’s members were allegedly immune from conscription themselves. These entities competed for access to the lucrative corruption opportunities and conscription exemptions offered to their members.

see also Military draft enforcers launch raids across Ukraine (VIDEOS)Photos and videos on social media show conscription officers hunting draft dodgers in shopping malls, bars, and restaurants

 Amid heavy military losses and widespread draft evasion, Kiev has tightened its conscription laws, with ongoing raids targeting men at public venues, such as bars, malls, and even weddings.

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Things we Hate.. oh .. Terminate NATO!

— Future Freedom Foundation by Jacob G. Hornberger.. illustrations added

The Washington Post has published a long piece calling for NATO to take on a new official enemy — China. The piece was written by Sara Bjerg Moller, an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.

She argues that after 30 years since losing the Soviet Union as its official enemy and struggling to find a replacement to justify its continued existence, a perfect replacement would be China.

I’ve got a better idea. Let’s just put NATO out of its misery and TERMINATE it.

After all, let’s not forget NATO’s original mission: to defend Europe from the possibility of an invasion by the Soviet Union, which had been America’s and Britain’s World War II partner and ally but which had been converted to their official enemy at the end of the war.

RT

But the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Europe was always nil. The Soviet Union had been decimated by World War II, especially as a result of the German invasion of the country.

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335 people Refuse to Pay Tax for Military Spending in Spain

335 people refused to pay the part of their taxes dedicated to military spending in 2018 in the Spanish State

They diverted 35.882 € to projects of peace and justice.

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According to the “Report: Fiscal Objection 2018 Survey of Alternativa 335 personas desobedientes al Gasto Militar en el 2017Antimilitarista.Moc”, 335 people, from 30 provinces of the Spanish State, refused in 2018 to contribute their taxes to finance the armies and their wars when making their tax declarations .

This action of collective disobedience was framed in the campaign of Fiscal Objection to Military Expenditure, now going since 1983, 35 years ago. A total of 35,888 euros was diverted to finance alternative projects for the defense of Peace and Social Justice. Continue reading “335 people Refuse to Pay Tax for Military Spending in Spain”

the War Starts Here … Camp 2017

Potzehne, Germany:the War Starts Here Camp 2017

From the 31th of july to the 6th of August the War-Starts-Here camp will set up in Potzehne (close to Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt,Germany). For several years now the War-Starts-Here camp has brought together lots of different people close to the modern and important military training site in Germany.

The “Gefechtsübungszentrum Heer”, abbreviated as GÜZ. Antimilitarist discussions as well as practical resistance left a persistent mark on both the participants of the camp and the surrounding region.

We gather to gain and share knowledge about wars and their preparation, to figure out the situation we are living in and to analyse its internal relationships. Perspectives in emancipatory movements are highly diverse – and so are the views on military and war.

This in mind, we want to further develop common ideas of resistance, strengthen the local antiwar-initiatives grown over long years and also discuss our differences respectfully. It seems highly important to us, that we make a step towards the locals and talk with them about their experiences…and maybe more…

For this year’s camp we build on last year’s main issues. The motto “Krieg.Macht.Flucht.” is still up-to-date, saying “war causes flight” while making use of the ambiguous German word “Macht” (translating both as “makes”/”causes” and “power”).

This time our focus will be the development of common anti-militarist and anti-racist perspectives of resistance. Let’s overpower our powerlessness – the camp in Potzehne wants to provide a space for that. We want to have discussions at a horizontal level with everyone sharing our radical refusal of the global destructive circumstances.

Training, exercise, preparation and export – war starts here! We want to make this deadly site publicly visible, since it is of crucial importance to war preparation. Through various antimilitarist actions we want to disturb the “normal” operation on the GÜZ, let’s mark, block, and sabotage this full-speed-running machinery of war!

The camp is self-organized and thus, in its existence, shape and impact depending on active participation. Do not miss anything you haven’t helped to organize! Together we create a social counter project: From a society deeply infiltrated by authoritarian structures, let’s set sails towards Utopia.

Our acceptance has limits: nationalist, antisemite, islamophobic, racist and sexist attacks happen much too often. Exclusions based on characteristics as clothing, age or use of language happen much too often.

We are trying to be aware of, question and change our own socialized way of thinking and our behavior and we expect everybody to do the same.

More information concerning the arrival, the program and the complete call out you can find on:
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