Learn more

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has ordered consular services to be withheld for conscripted men who have fled abroad. The move comes shortly after Ukraine adopted a new, stricter mobilization law. “If these people think that someone far away is fighting at the front and sacrificing his life for this state, and someone else is sitting abroad and receiving services from this state, that doesn’t work,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on the X social media platform, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. “Being abroad does not exempt citizens from their duties to their homeland,” he said. “That is onl…