Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving Ukraine, President Zelensky announced

Men between the ages of 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving Ukraine, President Zelensky announced

Women and children are the vast majority on the convoy to Hungary, a host country for those seeking to escape violent conflict in Ukraine. They left behind husbands, children and relatives due to the military mobilization of all adult males.

The European country has banned all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 60 leave the countryaccording to the State Border Guard Service.

“In Kiev —more than 800 kilometers away— the situation is very badmany left the city for the western parts of the country, where the student hostels have been emptied to make room for the refugees,” he explains to EFE Krisztina, a 25-year-old girl with a tired face, who holds a small shivering dog in her arms and tries to reassure and warm him.

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Krisztina is one of the 150,000 people who make up the Magyar minority in Ukraine, and many of them have relatives in Hungary, where can they stay.

According to Juhász, who oversees aid delivery by the Hungarian Reformed Church, many ukrainian men they left their homes last nightbefore it Banning men between the ages of 18 and 60 from leaving the country..

This was provided for in a statement signed Thursday night, in which Ukrainian President Zelensky said that “to ensure the defense of the state, maintain combat readiness and mobilization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations”, a broad-based mobilization was ordered, including in the capital, Kiev, and in all the main cities of Ukraine.

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In the same declaration he also ordered the “recruitment of conscripts, reservists for military servicetheir delivery to military units and institutions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” and other state security services. (I)

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Source: Eluniverso

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