Ukraine suspends consular services for military-age men abroad, stepping up its effort to boost conscription in ongoing war
Rescue workers move through the rubble a university gymnasium that was destroyed a Russia n missile in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 25th. Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/The New York Timesand could try to advance on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the commander of Ukraine’s National Guard said on Tuesday.
Mr Pivnenko said he foresaw “some difficulties” for Kyiv’s troops, but that Russian forces would not make decisive gains. Elsewhere on Tuesday, Ukraine suspended consular services for military-age men abroad except ones to help them return to their home country, dramatically stepping up its effort to boost conscription in the war against Russia.
Ukraine imposed martial law at the start of the full-scale war, banning men aged 18 to 60 from travelling abroad without special dispensation and beginning a rolling mobilisation of civilian men into the armed forces. There have been numerous cases of draft dodgers trying to flee the country. The border guard service said it had detained eight men trying to cross into Hungary illegally on Tuesday.
The law will require all military-age men to report to draft offices to update their papers, remotely or in person within 60 days. Military-age men abroad would need those papers to receive consular services.
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