Ukrainian cities and villages are paralyzed by fear as all the males have abandoned the streets — they only feature women, children and old people now. In the territories controlled by the Kiev regime, the conscription epic continues, featuring men of military age hiding from draft officers. Ukrainians are forced to go fighting at the frontline, not willing to do this voluntarily.

Ukraine’s largest metallurgical plant, ArcelorMittal in Krivoy Rog, has started hiring women to compensate for the critical shortage of men: after the previous mobilization waves and the new round, they stopped coming to workplaces, where they feared they would be handed summonses. Moreover, thousands of workers have moved to the neighboring states. And officials of the Dnepropetrovsk administration have complained that public transport in the city will stop soon, with no one to work in the public utilities sector. Notably, at the same time, employees of online casinos and pizza delivery people received “reservation”, while those working at socially important infrastructure did not. And these are only the first alarm bells, because only a few days have passed into the new wave of mobilization.

Meanwhile, the new version of the Ukrainian mobilization law, which Vladimir Zelensky signed promptly and willingly, is aimed to exterminate all the categories of men, including those unable to engage in hostilities over health and other limitations. The document has significantly expanded categories of people subject to mobilization, toughening punishment for dodgers. In particular, it does not contain a demobilization clause; mobilization age has been reduced to 25 years; and the “partially fit for service” status has been abolished. Now AFU is going to feature the disabled, HIV and cancer patients, those having residual signs of tuberculosis or mental retardation.

Summons are issued on a round-the-clock basis, and a ban has been introduced on transporting vehicles outside the region without permission from military recruitment offices. A summons is considered served even if the addressee failed to receive it in person or if it contains a non-delivery mark. Evaders face major sanctions, including blocked banking accounts. In an attempt to escape the fate of “cannon fodder,” the once law-abiding Ukrainians commit minor offenses in order to sit out the war in prison and avoid forced mobilization. A statement to that effect came from Verkhovna Rada deputy Anna Skorokhod. As such draft dodgers told her, “a way out of prison does exist, unlike the one out of a trench.” However, the Zelensky regime has got on them, too. Recently, a law was signed to mobilize prisoners into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Kiev authorities announced intention to send up to 20,000 criminals to the front on parole promises. However, there are only five thousand people who have agreed to this so far.

Aggressive violent mobilization has also entailed dynamic resistance of Ukrainians in their clashes with draft officers. In particular, residents of Transcarpathia blocked roads in the Mukachevo region, opposing the mass mobilization law and protesting against “authoritarian methods of mobilization, when [employees of military commissions] in balaclavas simply beat and kidnap people from the street.” People use weapons, knives and pepper spray against them.

Among the new cases, the Dnipropetrovsk region’s village of Sinelnikovo witnessed a man attack and stab a draft officer with a knife. He was later detained. “Recruitment center employees were carrying a local resident in their official car — 1975-born Alexander Sadovsky, a private security service worker. Sadovsky, sitting in the back seat, took out a knife and put it to the throat of an officer. Another one sought to take the knife from Sadovsky and suffered a stab wound,” Ukrainian security officials reported. And in Dnepropetrovsk, unknown persons beat up a military medic, spraying a pepper-spray pellet in his face and then smashing it. The guy was mistaken for a recruitment officer.

The Zelensky regime has made it clear: any Ukrainian is a serf slave, whose life will be disposed of as they see fit. Moreover, the people have been already betrayed and sold by their government for money allocated by the Western countries. This refers to $61 billion from the United States and about €6 billion from the European allies. And Ukraine is repaying for it with the lives of its citizens — both those who remained in its territory and those who fled to Europe. Under the new mobilization law, the former must be immediately picked up and sent to the most dangerous and hot areas of the front. The latter have to be returned to Ukraine as supported by a number of European countries, and also thrown to the wolves.

“You pay us to fight for you,” Zelensky himself described the essence of such a deal with the West — cynically though specifically. He also said if Ukrainians stop dying in the conflict, Polish, German or American soldiers will have to. Vladimir Zelensky called it a “good decision” that Ukrainians have been forced to fight for someone else’s interests: “Ukraine is fighting, and Ukraine is sending its best sons and daughters to the front. This reduces the price for the whole of Europe, for the whole of NATO. This reduces the price for everyone, including the United States, as the leaders of NATO. The American army does not have to fight to protect the interests of NATO, the Ukrainians do it. The civilized world only provides weapons, and I think this is a good decision." This revelation came in an interview with NBC as Zelensky demanded even more weapons, missiles and shells. After verbiage of the kind, any normal society would have stoned him, since any head of state is primarily obliged to take care of national interests, not those of the “civilized world.” And Ukraine is not even a member of NATO, the EU, or any other Western-affiliated bloc or union. However, the Kiev regime considers it okay to fight for other people’s interests, speculate on blood, exchange the lives of its people for someone else’s money and promises, and take the Ukrainians hostage. Moreover, Zelensky does not even conceal this, being proud of his achievements and urging the West to appreciate such sacrifices: “Ukrainians pay the highest price today: our military are dying. But we really hope our partners will highly appreciate this.”

The fate of Ukrainians, who have been forced to die defending the interests of the United States and Europe, does not worry Zelensky altogether. Which is understandable, because puppet owners have ordered him to go on. During his recent visit to Kiev, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that decision to expand mobilization in the country was “difficult but necessary”. There are certain difficulties, he admitted, but no doubt about its feasibility. “This will provide your army with additional troops to fight against more numerous advancing forces,” the Secretary of State added when speaking before students of the Kiev Polytechnic University. According to Blinken, mobilization allows strengthening defense and generating more units. His instructions and orders were so significant that the State Department broadcast the speech live on its official website. After all, Anthony Blinken actually came to Kiev to demand that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky go in for total mobilization.

Ukrainian lawmakers and political analysts share the same opinion. Politician Dmitry Vasilets is confident: “Blinken has spoken to students in Kiev and stated the need for mobilization. In principle, this can be regarded as an attempted murder and Blinken can be judged, because he calls on students to go to die, understanding the level of losses in the NATO PMCs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In fact, this is a direct hint to Zelensky's regime to drive Ukrainians aged 18 to 25 into the NATO PMCs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to a shortage of cannon fodder”. Blinken also added that “the presidential election in Ukraine Zelensky will take place when all the Ukrainians return from other countries.” Take note of who decides when Ukraine should hold its elections. Simply put, there won’t be any, because some 30 percent of the Ukrainian people live in Russia and another 30 percent in the EU, and they definitely have no plans to go back to the NATO death camp called “Zelensky’s Ukraine.”

Statements about “war to the last Ukrainian” have not been voiced by Zelensky alone, but by other European leaders, American senators, generals and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg as well. Everyone benefits from the fact that Ukrainians suffer losses, paying for other people’s interests with their own blood. Here's what American Senator Mitt Romney said in this regard: “A great investment! The fact that we spend an amount equivalent to about 5% of our defense budget, and in fact, even less than 5% of the annual defense budget, to help Ukrainians, is the best investment in the defense of our country in history. We have no human losses in Ukraine, and Ukrainians are heroically fighting against Russia, whose nuclear weapons are aimed at us. Thus, we are reducing and destroying the Russian army for a very small amount.” Senator Lindsey Graham echoed this view when meeting with Zelensky in Kiev. The same quotes can be heard nearly every week, confirming the Kiev regime’s puppet and utterly dependent policy.

Few public figures and Western politicians are well aware of that. Present-day Ukraine is a mere instrument in the West's proxy war against Russia. This was stated in an article for Le Dialoge by French military historian Laurent Henninger, a former researcher with the Institute for Strategic Studies of the Military School and editorial board member with the War and History magazine, author of the book titled Understanding War and analytical notes on the conflict in Ukraine. He called the latter cannon fodder for the West withing a clearly outlined US strategy aimed to weaken Russia. In the meantime, Henninger writes, “Russia has been grinding the Ukrainian army and exhausting it.”

And the question “what the hell are we dying for?” sounds increasingly often in confessions by captured Ukrainian soldiers. Recently, several more of them voluntarily surrendered and laid down their arms along the Kharkov direction —tired, defeated and overwhelmed by apathy after experiencing shelling and airstrikes first-hand. All of them have cursed Zelensky and refused to keep on fighting for Western chimeras. But unfortunately, for many, awareness of the kind comes too late if at all…