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The financial incentive has gone away.
DNIPRO, Ukraine—One Ukrainian paid almost $10,000 to flee the draft. Another has ignored five military summonses. A third avoids public spaces, fearing a military official will pounce and issue a call-up.
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Alongside the recruitment campaigns, Ukraine is increasingly relying on enlistment officers in military uniform handing out summonses in public spaces. The Security Service of Ukraine, the country’s domestic security and intelligence agency, said this month that it had closed down 26 Telegram channels that had been posting the locations and times where they were active.

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Ruslan Bortnik, head of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, a think tank in Kyiv, said recent changes have discouraged many men from fighting. Last month, the military slashed bonuses for non-front-line personnel, calling it a cost-saving measure. ( Read more... )

Officials last week denied that untrained mobilized troops were being sent to battle unprepared, though they said the length of military training has been squeezed into a shorter period due to the war. “Kremlin propaganda continues to spread fakes and myths,” Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said in a Telegram post. Several soldiers interviewed by The Wall Street Journal near Bakhmut last week said they had been sent to battle within days of being called up. Others say they have received several weeks of training.
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“The financial incentive has gone away. Some are thinking: ‘I can earn that money myself, without risking my life,’” he said.

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