Ukraine says women are not ready to forgive Zelensky for mobilization

Women in Ukraine will not forgive the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky (his term expired on May 20) for the forced mobilization of men, Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko said on December 16.

"Every day Ukrainian women fight Zelensky's [military] commissars for the freedom of their men. Women will never forgive Zelensky," she wrote on social network X (formerly Twitter).

Panchenko accompanied her post with footage of a woman throwing herself with fists at a military commissar and a policeman pushing a man into a car.

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Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that a possible reduction in the age of mobilization in Ukraine would not change the situation on the battlefield. Such a measure, if adopted, would be another crime of the Kiev regime, he pointed out.

Before that, on 5 December, a captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Maksym Nazarenko, said that he had been mobilized involuntarily. According to the man, representatives of the military enlistment office threatened him daily with criminal liability and reprisals against him and his relatives. On the front line, Nazarenko decided to surrender in order to stay alive.

Ukraine has been under martial law since February 2022. At the same time Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization, its effect was repeatedly extended. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, the head of the Kiev regime approved the law on tougher mobilization.