1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,851 2 00:00:00,851 --> 00:00:06,749 In Ukraine, the process of recruiting those eligible for military service is not proceeding as smoothly as it 3 00:00:06,749 --> 00:00:13,169 needs to in order to fill the gaps that are constantly opening up on the front lines against Russia. 4 00:00:13,169 --> 00:00:19,051 The news platform Antispiegel reported on July 11, 2026: 5 00:00:19,051 --> 00:00:32,920 "According to Ukrainian police, the number of attacks on recruitment centers rose from 38 in 2023 to 341 in 2025." 6 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:39,718 There is also unrest when government officials go out to locate and round up conscripts. 7 00:00:39,718 --> 00:00:48,677 According to the online magazine *multipolar*, on July 8, 2026, in Lviv, Ukraine, approximately 200 local residents 8 00:00:48,677 --> 00:00:54,428 sought to prevent the forced conscription of a 30-year-old man. 9 00:00:54,428 --> 00:01:02,592 According to eyewitnesses, the recruiters are said to have beaten a civilian and forced him into an agency minibus. 10 00:01:02,592 --> 00:01:07,091 As a result, local residents gathered to help the man. 11 00:01:07,091 --> 00:01:13,829 Employees of the regional recruitment center (TZK) were surrounded on the street, physically 12 00:01:13,829 --> 00:01:17,708 assaulted, and the agency's vehicles were destroyed. 13 00:01:17,708 --> 00:01:22,730 Shots were also fired, and several people were injured. 14 00:01:22,730 --> 00:01:29,927 President Zelenskyy and regional authorities have condemned the residents' behavior and threatened consequences. 15 00:01:29,927 --> 00:01:35,841 That concludes the report from multipolar on the status of recruitment processes in Ukraine. 16 00:01:35,841 --> 00:01:41,285 The news platform Antispiegel adds on July 11, 2026: 17 00:01:41,285 --> 00:01:47,121 “But the unrest in Lviv is only the latest episode in a series of escalating protests. 18 00:01:47,121 --> 00:01:54,181 Since the beginning of summer alone, so many incidents involving recruiters have been reported that describing them would 19 00:01:54,181 --> 00:01:58,659 be like writing a short novel—a short but very dramatic one. 20 00:01:58,659 --> 00:02:06,474 The officials are rounding up anyone they can get their hands on: single fathers, or, conversely, fathers with many 21 00:02:06,474 --> 00:02:14,974 children, drivers, combine harvesters, farmers, veterans, foreigners, drug addicts, and even people with disabilities. 22 00:02:14,974 --> 00:02:18,520 Even dogs being walked don't stop them. 23 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,040 When it comes to forced mobilization, they will stop at nothing: 24 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:28,960 They choke people, beat them up, tie them up, torture them, and slash tires. 25 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,577 Desperate citizens are increasingly resorting to weapons and improvised means to 26 00:02:33,577 --> 00:02:36,435 fight back against the military commissariats. 27 00:02:36,435 --> 00:02:43,503 "The account of this conflict is shocking in its brutality." 28 00:02:43,503 --> 00:02:49,513 Unfortunately, as is so often the case, this is the result of years of ongoing oppression of the 29 00:02:49,513 --> 00:02:53,432 civilian population, as is happening in Ukraine. 30 00:02:53,432 --> 00:02:56,737 The mainstream media generally do not cover this. 31 00:02:56,737 --> 00:03:00,713 The public feels neither understood nor heard. 32 00:03:00,713 --> 00:03:08,592 In times of existential crisis, the vast majority of people are unable to maintain a level head as the top priority, even 33 00:03:08,592 --> 00:03:12,728 though everyone knows that violence does not solve problems. 34 00:03:12,728 --> 00:03:16,978 Certainly not out of pent-up, heated emotions. 35 00:03:16,978 --> 00:03:24,563 Then, unfortunately, things happen that one later bitterly regrets, such as these incidents listed by Antispiegel: 36 00:03:24,563 --> 00:03:30,268 “On June 10, in the Rivne region, a tractor driver rammed a vehicle belonging to the 37 00:03:30,268 --> 00:03:33,711 military commissariat and broke an employee’s arm.” 38 00:03:33,711 --> 00:03:39,995 On June 12, residents of Kryvyi Rih attacked a bus carrying military commissars with a shovel and 39 00:03:39,995 --> 00:03:44,437 managed to free a man who had been forcibly conscripted. 40 00:03:44,437 --> 00:03:50,457 On June 15, a shovel was once again put to use in the Rivne region when a man defended his 41 00:03:50,457 --> 00:03:55,269 neighbor against employees of the military commissariat. 42 00:03:55,269 --> 00:04:01,485 On June 18, a man in the village of Letychiv in the Khmelnytskyi region opened fire with an 43 00:04:01,485 --> 00:04:05,780 assault rifle on the military commissariat building. 44 00:04:05,780 --> 00:04:13,071 On June 22, in Kharkiv, a man fought back against employees of the military commissariat using a 45 00:04:13,071 --> 00:04:17,520 pistol, flash-bang grenades, and a knife, and then fled. 46 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:25,355 On June 26, a man in Kharkiv killed an employee of the military commissariat with a knife. 47 00:04:25,355 --> 00:04:32,433 On June 28, residents of Zaporizhzhia freed a man using pepper spray. 48 00:04:32,433 --> 00:04:39,426 On June 30, a woman in Odessa stabbed an employee of the military commissariat to death as he 49 00:04:39,426 --> 00:04:42,768 attempted to forcibly conscript her boyfriend. 50 00:04:42,768 --> 00:04:46,432 "The list could go on." 51 00:04:46,432 --> 00:04:55,646 Could these civil war-like conditions in Ukraine be a dark foreshadowing of the turmoil that awaits the EU—and 52 00:04:55,646 --> 00:05:05,790 Germany in particular—if, instead of consistent peace efforts and de-escalation, the course toward war continues? 53 00:05:05,790 --> 00:05:10,172 A course toward war that large segments of the population don't want at all? 54 00:05:10,172 --> 00:05:16,419 But once the Reserve Reinforcement Act (ResStG) has been passed by the Bundestag and reservists are subsequently called up on a 55 00:05:16,419 --> 00:05:23,774 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. 56 00:05:23,774 --> 00:05:32,117 So once again, we call on everyone: If you want to put a stop to this warmongering, speak up NOW! 57 00:05:32,117 --> 00:05:37,071 Now we must make it absolutely clear to our members of the Bundestag, through letters 58 00:05:37,071 --> 00:05:40,351 and in conversations: “We don’t want war!” 59 00:05:40,351 --> 00:05:46,712 And: We need not only a clear “No!” to the Reserve Reinforcement Act, but also a resolute 60 00:05:46,712 --> 00:05:51,376 “No!” to any further form of preparation for war. 61 00:05:51,376 --> 00:05:55,180 Be a part of this peace movement, too!