In Ukraine, the process of recruiting those eligible for military service is not proceeding as smoothly as it
needs to in order to fill the gaps that are constantly opening up on the front lines against Russia.
The news platform Antispiegel reported on July 11, 2026:
"According to Ukrainian police, the number of attacks on recruitment centers rose from 38 in 2023 to 341 in 2025."
There is also unrest when government officials go out to locate and round up conscripts.
According to the online magazine *multipolar*, on July 8, 2026, in Lviv, Ukraine, approximately 200 local residents
sought to prevent the forced conscription of a 30-year-old man.
According to eyewitnesses, the recruiters are said to have beaten a civilian and forced him into an agency minibus.
As a result, local residents gathered to help the man.
Employees of the regional recruitment center (TZK) were surrounded on the street, physically
assaulted, and the agency's vehicles were destroyed.
Shots were also fired, and several people were injured.
President Zelenskyy and regional authorities have condemned the residents' behavior and threatened consequences.
That concludes the report from multipolar on the status of recruitment processes in Ukraine.
The news platform Antispiegel adds on July 11, 2026:
“But the unrest in Lviv is only the latest episode in a series of escalating protests.
Since the beginning of summer alone, so many incidents involving recruiters have been reported that describing them would
be like writing a short novel—a short but very dramatic one.
The officials are rounding up anyone they can get their hands on: single fathers, or, conversely, fathers with many
children, drivers, combine harvesters, farmers, veterans, foreigners, drug addicts, and even people with disabilities.
Even dogs being walked don't stop them.
When it comes to forced mobilization, they will stop at nothing:
They choke people, beat them up, tie them up, torture them, and slash tires.
Desperate citizens are increasingly resorting to weapons and improvised means to
fight back against the military commissariats.
"The account of this conflict is shocking in its brutality."
Unfortunately, as is so often the case, this is the result of years of ongoing oppression of the
civilian population, as is happening in Ukraine.
The mainstream media generally do not cover this.
The public feels neither understood nor heard.
In times of existential crisis, the vast majority of people are unable to maintain a level head as the top priority, even
though everyone knows that violence does not solve problems.
Certainly not out of pent-up, heated emotions.
Then, unfortunately, things happen that one later bitterly regrets, such as these incidents listed by Antispiegel:
“On June 10, in the Rivne region, a tractor driver rammed a vehicle belonging to the
military commissariat and broke an employee’s arm.”
On June 12, residents of Kryvyi Rih attacked a bus carrying military commissars with a shovel and
managed to free a man who had been forcibly conscripted.
On June 15, a shovel was once again put to use in the Rivne region when a man defended his
neighbor against employees of the military commissariat.
On June 18, a man in the village of Letychiv in the Khmelnytskyi region opened fire with an
assault rifle on the military commissariat building.
On June 22, in Kharkiv, a man fought back against employees of the military commissariat using a
pistol, flash-bang grenades, and a knife, and then fled.
On June 26, a man in Kharkiv killed an employee of the military commissariat with a knife.
On June 28, residents of Zaporizhzhia freed a man using pepper spray.
On June 30, a woman in Odessa stabbed an employee of the military commissariat to death as he
attempted to forcibly conscript her boyfriend.
"The list could go on."
Could these civil war-like conditions in Ukraine be a dark foreshadowing of the turmoil that awaits the EU—and
Germany in particular—if, instead of consistent peace efforts and de-escalation, the course toward war continues?
A course toward war that large segments of the population don't want at all?
But once the Reserve Reinforcement Act (ResStG) has been passed by the Bundestag and reservists are subsequently called up on a
consistent basis, the noose of war will have tightened to such an extent that no one here will be able to escape it anytime soon.
So once again, we call on everyone: If you want to put a stop to this warmongering, speak up NOW!
Now we must make it absolutely clear to our members of the Bundestag, through letters
and in conversations: “We don’t want war!”
And: We need not only a clear “No!” to the Reserve Reinforcement Act, but also a resolute
“No!” to any further form of preparation for war.
Be a part of this peace movement, too!