Volodymyr Ishchenko:

It is really difficult to argue that the war is still a kind of “people’s war” if the majority of Ukrainian men actually do not want to fight. The extent to which they are ready to articulate this position depends also on their fear of repression. It’s difficult to say this within the Ukrainian public sphere – that kind of criticism exists mostly in closed chats, “friends-only” Facebook accounts, and so on, and is only very cautiously articulated in publications.

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