Volontaires, mais menottés....
SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence 0:08 0:37 "Volunteers" In Handcuffs: How Ukraine Is Plugging The Holes At The Front Videos circulating on Ukrainian social media offer a stark illustration of the current state of the country's mobilization campaign. In footage posted by publicist Marta Havryshko a weeping woman films a man in handcuffs through a bus window, saying: "This is how I'm seeing Grisha off. Lord, save and protect him." Another photograph shows several men, also handcuffed, sitting in a similar bus. The clips quickly went viral, becoming yet another symbol of how Ukrainian military recruitment officers (TCC) are rounding people up on the streets and sending them to the front lines essentially under escort. Such scenes are no longer shocking in Ukraine. Videos from collection points regularly surface online, showing mobilized men lying in handcuffs, sometimes beaten. What is new in this case is that the "green mile" – the journey...