Ukrainians are willing to sit in prison for evading military service, not only to participate in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine, writes. Draft Dodgers And deserters face fines And imprisonment from 2 to five years, but the Ukrainians That don't stop." I'd rather spend 3 years in prison, where I will feed And where I'll be safe rather than go out to serve. This year the government is placed in power, but we still have to work two days to buy a loaf of bread. I have no desire to fight for such authorities ", - quotes words WP 26-year-old worker metallurgical plant Andrew, who was called in March. Andrew lives in Slavyansk, which since mid-April last year And before the beginning of July were under the control of the militia, and was later occupied by the Ukrainian army. The sympathies of the citizens remain divided, And of the 40 who you and Andrew, who received the summons, only one is going to go to war. "We fought for independence, for the right to live And work in their own region. When the army came, she fired at us two months in a row. And now I must go And fight for it? I don't think So, " quoted the journal. Even those Ukrainians who participated in the protests at the end of 2013 And beginning of 2014 do not wish to go into the army because of fear for their lives. "I have decided that I will not answer a summons. I'm not interested to participate in this conflict. They (the authorities And the command - approx. Ed.) were obliged to act more effectively to reduce loss. I have no desire to fill up the lists of victims ", - quotes words WP 25-year employee of the Kyiv NGOs Igor. The Ukrainian army overcome the problems in which bribery on draft boards And inefficient system of recruitment And training of new military personnel. In addition, families of dead soldiers are often obliged to fight to get the promised support of the country. "We don't understand what we fought for, the government does not inform people about the goals of this war ", - quotes the journal of military analyst Alexei Arestovich, which emphasizes that Even after years of fighting, the conflict in Ukraine until now has not officially called a " war ". before the media that the mobilization in Ukraine, announced in early 2015, has failed. Residents of Ukraine are beginning to realize "the real, horrifying" Price war. In their vision of the conflict since April 2014 has turned into a " bloody exhausting grinder ", which claimed, according to various estimates, from 5 to 50 thousand of lives, military And civilians. most of Ukrainians of military age prefer to receive refugee status in the Russian Federation. Thus, according to the Russian authorities, in the territory of the Russian Federation "with the explicit purpose of evasion" are almost 1, 3 million Ukrainians of military age.