As Ukraine prepares for a large-scale mobilization, the government in Kiev is also discussing how to get Ukrainians who have gone abroad into the army. While Germany has already announced that it will not support these efforts, Estonia has declared that it is ready and willing to extradite the refugees if Ukraine shows interest. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that Ukrainians living abroad will receive calls to mobilize via e-mail. Kyiv now wants to mobilize half a million people, Davyd Arachamija, leader of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, said on Monday.
“If Ukraine needs it, then Estonia can find and repatriate these persons to Ukraine,” he said last week the Minister of the Interior Lauri Läänemets. “Basically, we know where these individuals are and what they are doing. A lot, most of them are working; they are resident in Estonia,” he added.
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No official request has yet come from Kyiv, according to Estonian media, although the government has discussed it with the Ukrainian ambassador. However, Läänemets has the opportunity to discuss the agreement between Ukraine and Estonia in the coming days. Currently, extradition of foreigners to the homeland is possible only in cases where a natural person is being prosecuted.
Minister Läänemets said that about 7,500 Ukrainian citizens of military age live in Estonia.
In Ukraine, meanwhile, the possibility of notifying men of the need to report to the military registration office through electronic notifications is being considered. In an interview with German media, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that all Ukrainian citizens of military age who are currently abroad will be notified to report to military administrations. “We want justice for everyone because it concerns our own country. We will send them challenges,” said Umerov, who quoted Polish daily Rzeczpospolita.
According to Monday news to Ukrainska pravda Davyd Arachamija, leader of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, said that the government should present a bill on mobilization to parliament today, and announced that the military leadership had requested the mobilization of 500,000 soldiers.
– The Ukrainian government is setting up a grand experiment to recruit 500 thousand mobilized people.
It started with the fact that today the law was supposed to be put to a vote, but they couldn’t.
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