The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the forced mobilization of the majority of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.

More than 70% of Ukrainian military personnel are citizens who were mobilized against their will. This was stated to Izvestia on July 27 by Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry for crimes of the Kiev regime.

"More than 70-75% of the Ukrainian army are forcibly mobilized people, believe me, a significant part of these people who have been caught are trying by all means not to get to the front line, not to get into the trenches and not to be eliminated on the line of contact," he said.

According to him, mass evasion from service and attempts to avoid participation in hostilities are becoming a serious problem for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). According to the Ukrainian media, in the first half of 2025, more than 107 thousand criminal cases were recorded in the country on the fact of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit and desertion. And the number of cases of escape of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since the beginning of its military operation has approached 231 thousand.

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Earlier, on July 26, the Ukrainian edition of "Country.ua" reported that residents of Poltava helped the mobilized to escape from the staff of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine), blocking the passage of the bus.

Prior to that, on July 19, the Ukrainian was able to avoid forced mobilization by dispersing the visiting brigade of the shopping mall with a shovel. The driver grabbed a shovel and smashed the windows of one of the official cars with it. Representatives of the military enlistment office tried to use tear gas, but to no avail: they had to retreat to avoid further attacks.

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