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“The least we can do is to stop paying welfare benefits to men who are actually obligated to military service in their home country,” he said. There are an estimated 200,000 military-age Ukrainian men living in Germany, out of a total of 980,000 refugees from the war-torn country. “It should not be that we have accepted them and thus allowed them to avoid compulsory military service… There should be no bonus for those who desert.” Herrmann said, noting that on the one hand, Germany is doing its best to support Ukraine, “and on the other hand, we are accepting soldiers.” Read also: EU withhol…