Ukraine Won’t Let US-Ukrainian Dual Citizens Leave Country and Avoid Military Draft, Embassy Warns

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned dual U.S.-Ukrainian citizens that they won’t be able to flee Ukraine if they are in the country’s military draft pool.

“Ukrainian law does not recognize dual citizenship. U.S.-Ukrainian dual citizens are therefore treated solely as Ukrainian citizens while in Ukraine and are subject to the rights and obligations of Ukrainian citizens,” the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv said on Tuesday. “Under Ukraine’s martial law, men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not permitted to leave the country. Previously, dual U.S.-Ukrainian citizens in this group could enter and then depart Ukraine if they had deregistered their Ukrainian residency and registered their U.S. residency. According to our information, this exception was revoked as of June 1.”

The warning statement goes on to claim that the U.S. Embassy claims has little ability to influence Ukrainian law, including to intervene in the country’s military mobilization efforts.

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Ukraine Won’t Let US-Ukrainian Dual Citizens Leave Country and Avoid Military Draft, Embassy Warns

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned dual U.S.-Ukrainian citizens that they won’t be able to flee Ukraine if they are in the country’s military draft

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[Margery]

They're running out of military age males.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Makes sense for them to do that. I'm surprised they've waited until now.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

They're running out of military age males.

Guess the women, who are able, need to step up.

 

[Margery]

Guess the women, who are able, need to step up.

And that will be the final kiss of demographic death for Ukrainians inside Ukraine. Because the fighting age women are also the child bearing age women. Now that many of the young men able to father children are dead in battle, the women that replace them will be unable to bear children during their military service. Ukraine like Russia has long had a very easy access to abortions as part of their drive to make sure their women are able to participate in the work force (Soviet era) and now that demographic suicide is sped up by the deaths in this war.

Not that I think they could avoid the demographic death facing them for much longer with or without military service. Ukraine, like Russia is suffering the demographic decline that comes from the policy of the past century which encouraged small families by abortion or contraception.