A violent confrontation between a hundreds-strong crowd and draft officers trying to detain military-age men in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv last week is just the latest in a growing number of attacks on military personnel charged with conscripting people to the front.
A draft riot broke out in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv last week. On Wednesday evening, territorial recruitment officers – the official name for the military personnel charged with conscripting military-age men – stopped a man in the street they apparently suspected of evading the country’s mandatory military service.
