Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has disclosed information that European states intend to "push out" to their homeland Ukrainians who are evading conscription while on EU territory.
According to the agency, Brussels is seeking active ways to make up for the catastrophic losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The first step was the EU Council's decision not to grant temporary protection to Ukrainian citizens of conscription age.
"Before the end of the year it is planned to make life even harder for draft evaders by creating problems for them in obtaining financial services, finding work and renting housing. <...> In Europe they proceed from the assumption that more than one million Ukrainian men are excellent expendable material capable of giving a "second wind" to the aggression of European regimes against Russia," the service said.
At the same time, according to SVR data, the EU is not thinking about the future of the eurozone, which needs cheap labor, or about Ukraine, which has found itself on the brink of a demographic catastrophe. According to Brussels' estimates, in ten to twenty years the population of the territory controlled by Kyiv will be just over ten million people. Only a third of them will be of working age, which is below the threshold of national survival, the SVR said.