Aggression against recruitment officers has become increasingly threatening, police say.

It’s not a topic people here care to discuss much, wary of feeding Russian propaganda.

But the latest National Police Service report recorded more than 600 assaults on recruitment officers to date and warned that the aggression has become “increasingly threatening”.

The first big alert came in April when several recruiters were stabbed, one fatally. Then this month in Lviv, some 200 protesters surrounded officers attempting to detain a suspected draft dodger and smashed and overturned their car.

The riot made headlines as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned violence against serving soldiers.

  • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
    676·
    2 days ago

    This is what Europe should propose to Putin. Russia will withdraw from all land it seized from Ukraine after the 2022 invasion. NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance. Ukraine and Canada would be permitted to join but not the US. All sanctions against Russia will be lifted. Russia will not be required to pay reparations. If Putin doesn’t accept the proposal, the UK and France would send troops to Ukraine.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        It’s either that or more death and destruction. Easy to choose that behind a warm laptop screen.

      • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
        212·
        1 day ago

        Suppose that you have no means of killing the rapist. The only choice would be to find a way to get him to stop.

        • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          22 hours ago

          The only other* way to get them to stop is to let them finish

          E: I condone fighting back against rapists, but I also understand why people might not fight back

      • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
        113·
        1 day ago

        Yes, don’t you think there could be new subscribers who have never read my proposal?

        • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          I was going to say have you got any traction? Part of the resistance may be because they are viewing this as an appeasement.

          • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
            12·
            20 hours ago

            No, Russia would have to withdraw from all land it seized after the 2022 invasion.

    • itsjustachairmary@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      So they’re just supposed to give up Crimea and there are no security guarantees from Russia at all, a country and government famous for breaking agreements when it suits them. Allows Russia to rebuild its military and attack again. From Crimea even.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        2 days ago

        I would assume being allowed into the European alliance would be a security guarantee from the rest of the countries in the EU. Russian security guarantees aren’t worth anything anyway.

      • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
        210·
        1 day ago

        The security guarantee would be the European Alliance which Ukraine would be permitted to join.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      93·
      2 days ago

      NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance.

      The US is never going to allow that to happen.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        You just have to propose it as though it was trumps idea, and distract him from reading watching anything about it before it’s signed.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          52·
          1 day ago

          Every TACO Tuesday, sure. He’s also threatened to leave the UN, withdraw from NAFTA, and pull out of the ICC.

          • panthera_@lemmy.todayEnglish
            26·
            1 day ago

            If dissolving NATO means peace, I’m sure he’ll agree otherwise, he better increase his support for Ukraine.

            • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              5·
              1 day ago

              Very easy to forget that the original, explicit purpose of NATO as an organizational entity was to prevent the state of Germany from reconstituting itself as a central European military power. The organization was co-opted by Truman and Eisenhower as a weapon of the Cold War. And its senior staff was jam packed with ex-Nazi commanders, dooming the vision of Pax Europa for another forty years. But it still ultimately served that purpose - keeping European powers from re-arming in any meaningful capacity, while the US gobbled up what remained of western colonial outposts.

              A dissolved NATO, along with a financially prosperous EU, would put Germany back in the driver’s seat again. In the short term, that might not mean much. But with the Russian economy burning out and the Ukrainian states hollowing out, you’re talking about an enormous landmass ripe for re-colonization in a way the 1930s fascists could have only dreamed.