WEBVTT 00:00.851 --> 00:06.749 In Ukraine, the process of recruiting those eligible for military service is not proceeding as smoothly as it 00:06.749 --> 00:13.169 needs to in order to fill the gaps that are constantly opening up on the front lines against Russia. 00:13.169 --> 00:19.051 The news platform Antispiegel reported on July 11, 2026: 00:19.051 --> 00:32.920 "According to Ukrainian police, the number of attacks on recruitment centers rose from 38 in 2023 to 341 in 2025." 00:32.920 --> 00:39.718 There is also unrest when government officials go out to locate and round up conscripts. 00:39.718 --> 00:48.677 According to the online magazine *multipolar*, on July 8, 2026, in Lviv, Ukraine, approximately 200 local residents 00:48.677 --> 00:54.428 sought to prevent the forced conscription of a 30-year-old man. 00:54.428 --> 01:02.592 According to eyewitnesses, the recruiters are said to have beaten a civilian and forced him into an agency minibus. 01:02.592 --> 01:07.091 As a result, local residents gathered to help the man. 01:07.091 --> 01:13.829 Employees of the regional recruitment center (TZK) were surrounded on the street, physically 01:13.829 --> 01:17.708 assaulted, and the agency's vehicles were destroyed. 01:17.708 --> 01:22.730 Shots were also fired, and several people were injured. 01:22.730 --> 01:29.927 President Zelenskyy and regional authorities have condemned the residents' behavior and threatened consequences. 01:29.927 --> 01:35.841 That concludes the report from multipolar on the status of recruitment processes in Ukraine. 01:35.841 --> 01:41.285 The news platform Antispiegel adds on July 11, 2026: 01:41.285 --> 01:47.121 “But the unrest in Lviv is only the latest episode in a series of escalating protests. 01:47.121 --> 01:54.181 Since the beginning of summer alone, so many incidents involving recruiters have been reported that describing them would 01:54.181 --> 01:58.659 be like writing a short novel—a short but very dramatic one. 01:58.659 --> 02:06.474 The officials are rounding up anyone they can get their hands on: single fathers, or, conversely, fathers with many 02:06.474 --> 02:14.974 children, drivers, combine harvesters, farmers, veterans, foreigners, drug addicts, and even people with disabilities. 02:14.974 --> 02:18.520 Even dogs being walked don't stop them. 02:18.520 --> 02:23.040 When it comes to forced mobilization, they will stop at nothing: 02:23.040 --> 02:28.960 They choke people, beat them up, tie them up, torture them, and slash tires. 02:28.960 --> 02:33.577 Desperate citizens are increasingly resorting to weapons and improvised means to 02:33.577 --> 02:36.435 fight back against the military commissariats. 02:36.435 --> 02:43.503 "The account of this conflict is shocking in its brutality." 02:43.503 --> 02:49.513 Unfortunately, as is so often the case, this is the result of years of ongoing oppression of the 02:49.513 --> 02:53.432 civilian population, as is happening in Ukraine. 02:53.432 --> 02:56.737 The mainstream media generally do not cover this. 02:56.737 --> 03:00.713 The public feels neither understood nor heard. 03:00.713 --> 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 03:08.592 --> 03:12.728 though everyone knows that violence does not solve problems. 03:12.728 --> 03:16.978 Certainly not out of pent-up, heated emotions. 03:16.978 --> 03:24.563 Then, unfortunately, things happen that one later bitterly regrets, such as these incidents listed by Antispiegel: 03:24.563 --> 03:30.268 “On June 10, in the Rivne region, a tractor driver rammed a vehicle belonging to the 03:30.268 --> 03:33.711 military commissariat and broke an employee’s arm.” 03:33.711 --> 03:39.995 On June 12, residents of Kryvyi Rih attacked a bus carrying military commissars with a shovel and 03:39.995 --> 03:44.437 managed to free a man who had been forcibly conscripted. 03:44.437 --> 03:50.457 On June 15, a shovel was once again put to use in the Rivne region when a man defended his 03:50.457 --> 03:55.269 neighbor against employees of the military commissariat. 03:55.269 --> 04:01.485 On June 18, a man in the village of Letychiv in the Khmelnytskyi region opened fire with an 04:01.485 --> 04:05.780 assault rifle on the military commissariat building. 04:05.780 --> 04:13.071 On June 22, in Kharkiv, a man fought back against employees of the military commissariat using a 04:13.071 --> 04:17.520 pistol, flash-bang grenades, and a knife, and then fled. 04:17.520 --> 04:25.355 On June 26, a man in Kharkiv killed an employee of the military commissariat with a knife. 04:25.355 --> 04:32.433 On June 28, residents of Zaporizhzhia freed a man using pepper spray. 04:32.433 --> 04:39.426 On June 30, a woman in Odessa stabbed an employee of the military commissariat to death as he 04:39.426 --> 04:42.768 attempted to forcibly conscript her boyfriend. 04:42.768 --> 04:46.432 "The list could go on." 04:46.432 --> 04:55.646 Could these civil war-like conditions in Ukraine be a dark foreshadowing of the turmoil that awaits the EU—and 04:55.646 --> 05:05.790 Germany in particular—if, instead of consistent peace efforts and de-escalation, the course toward war continues? 05:05.790 --> 05:10.172 A course toward war that large segments of the population don't want at all? 05:10.172 --> 05:16.419 But once the Reserve Reinforcement Act (ResStG) has been passed by the Bundestag and reservists are subsequently called up on a 05:16.419 --> 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. 05:23.774 --> 05:32.117 So once again, we call on everyone: If you want to put a stop to this warmongering, speak up NOW! 05:32.117 --> 05:37.071 Now we must make it absolutely clear to our members of the Bundestag, through letters 05:37.071 --> 05:40.351 and in conversations: “We don’t want war!” 05:40.351 --> 05:46.712 And: We need not only a clear “No!” to the Reserve Reinforcement Act, but also a resolute 05:46.712 --> 05:51.376 “No!” to any further form of preparation for war. 05:51.376 --> 05:55.180 Be a part of this peace movement, too!