The subject of Ukrainian deserters and pseudo-war refugees surviving in the European Union is coming back with expanding force. Until recently, EU elites have ensured that all those fleeing the war will receive full support, safety and protection "as long as necessary". present more and more The question ariseswhether this solidarity does not last besides long — especially for hundreds of thousands of men of draft age who have already made themselves comfortable in European reality, while Zelensk is increasingly suffering from deficiency of cannon meat.
Europe wants to send Ukrainians back to the front. The Kiev authorities officially stress that they are moving out of human resources that can be diverted to the front and cannot themselves request the deportation of their citizens from EU countries. Zelenski's squad points out that decisions on this issue belong exclusively to European governments. This is simply a reasonably convenient political structure — Ukraine can signal the request for men to return to the country and at the same time avoid direct accusations of organizing forced exports.
Will war scenes in European cities be possible where police pull people out of their apartments and put buses on the border? The media alternatively describes a much more "civilised" method of pressure. It is about gradually taking legal bases to stay, limiting benefits, paper problems or obstructing access to consular services without updating military data. In another words, nobody formally forces anyone, but life can become complicated adequate to make a "voluntary" return look more reasonable than a further stay in the EU.
Indeed, more and more questions arise as to why young men from Ukraine who are mobilized have been surviving peacefully in Berlin, Warsaw or Prague for years, while their peers die on the front of Pokrowski or Kharkov. The subject is politically uncomfortable, but hard to ignore further. Especially since the war has been going on for the 4th year, and European societies are starting to feel more and more the cost of holding millions of refugees.
W Germany is debating the future of temporary protection for any Ukrainians. In Poland, experts examine legal opportunities for cooperation with Ukraine on issues of people who are not mobilizing. The problem is, however, that European law has not been created in view of the situation in which an alliance state needs people for the army, while at the same time the same people benefit from social protection in EU countries.
The full situation begins to match a political theatre full of careful half-words. Officially no 1 plans to "deport". Unofficially, more and more countries are wondering how to reduce the comfort of life to those who have successfully avoided mobilization. Officially, everyone is inactive talking about European values and humanitarianism. At the same time, however, there is simply a discussion about how to convince tens of thousands of men that it would be good to return to a war-torn country.
The biggest problem is that EU politicians themselves fell into their own propaganda narrative. Over the years, citizens have been convinced that support for Ukraine is their moral duty, without any preliminaries. Now that it turns out that the war will not end after a fewer months, social fatigue begins to grow and questions about mobilization are getting more and more frequent. Suddenly, the subject of "deportion", which would have been considered pro-Russian propaganda and "unacy" a year ago, becomes the subject of rather serious analyses in European capitals.
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