Ukraine cuts consular services for potential conscripts lodged overseas
Al Jazeera
Kyiv’s top diplomat orders the move as war-torn country pushes to boost conscription.
Ukraine is set to suspend consular services for military-age men abroad.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday that he had ordered services cut for all such men, except for those returning to Ukraine. The move comes as Kyiv pushes to boost conscription in a bid to halt building Russian momentum on the battlefield.
Kuleba said in a statement on X that he had ordered the measures to restore what he described as “fair treatment” for men of mobilisation age.
“How it looks like now: a man of conscription age went abroad, showed his state that he does not care about its survival, and then comes and wants to receive services from this state,” he said. “It does not work this way. Our country is at war.”
He said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would clarify the procedure for military-age men to obtain consular services soon.
