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The Times & The Sunday Times

Conscription tactics get dirty as war-weary Ukrainians defy draft

The Times & The Sunday Times
Summary
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65% Informative

Ukraine has roughly one million soldiers mobilised and in active service.

The military hopes to add a further 200,000 troops by the end of the year .

On some days more than 100 call-up papers were handed out, yet only a handful of men would respond.

Some days , more than half the men who do come forward have health conditions that make them ineligible.

Odesa contributed fewer men to the army because they were able to flee or pay for exemptions.

The majority of conscripts came from the countryside, where men could not afford such options.

Yevhen Borysov was charged last year with taking more than $5 million in bribes to approve exemptions.

VR Score

73

Informative language

73

Neutral language

69

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

47

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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