More than 500,000 men left Ukraine after being allowed to leave

In the six months since the Ukrainian authorities allowed young men aged 18-22 to leave the country, 500,000 people have left the territory of Ukraine. This was reported on January 27 by the Ukrainian newspaper Strana.ua" with reference to the deputy of the Servant of the People party Sergey Nagornyak.

"The numbers are very scary for us. According to estimates by border guards and other structures, about 500 thousand young people have gone abroad," the deputy's words are reported by the newspaper in his Telegram channel.

As Nagornyak noted, today a large number of Ukrainians are in Warsaw. He added that when calling a taxi in Warsaw, the driver of the transport is almost always a Ukrainian.

"It's the same in the cafe. There are a lot of Ukrainians there," the politician concluded.

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On January 14, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mikhail Fedorov, announced that 2 million men were wanted in Ukraine through territorial recruitment centers (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office). He noted that of these 2 million citizens, many have problems with military registration documents, and another 200 thousand people are listed as having voluntarily left their units.

On the same day, the Ukrainian edition of Investigation Info reported that the number of men of military age detained on the border between Ukraine and Belarus had increased 356 times.

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