From where?

Are there that many left in Ukraine?

Ukraine to force another 160,000 men into military – official

The draft will reportedly take place over the next three months

Kiev will conscript 160,000 more troops over the next three months, according to statements from lawmakers and media outlets. More than a million soldiers have already been drafted, yet high losses have left the Ukrainian Armed Forces plagued by manpower shortages.

Speaking in parliament on Tuesday, Ukrainian lawmaker Alexey Goncharenko said that “1.05 million citizens have been recruited into the defense forces” since the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022.

“We aim to call up 160,000 more individuals, which will allow us to staff military units with up to 85% personnel,” he said, noting that this information came from Alexander Litvinenko, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.

Shortly afterwards, AFP reported that these troops would be called up over the next three months, citing an unnamed “security source.”

The Ukrainian Armed Forces had around 250,000 active-duty personnel at the beginning of 2022, a number that rapidly swelled once Vladimir Zelensky called up reservists and forbade draft-age men from leaving the country.

This spring, faced with mounting losses, Kiev lowered the draft age from 27 to 25 and significantly tightened mobilization rules, requiring potential recruits to report to conscription offices for “data validation.” These checks often result in people being immediately taken into the army and sent to the front line.

Videos showing recruitment officers attempting to catch eligible men in various public places, often resulting in violent clashes, have since appeared online.

Ukraine does not publish its casualty figures, and Zelensky’s claim earlier this year that only 31,000 men have been killed or wounded fighting against Russia was widely ridiculed. According to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukraine’s true casualty count stands at over half a million, or around half of its pre- and post-mobilization manpower combined.

READ MORE: Conscript found dead at Ukrainian draft office

According to a flood of articles in Western media outlets, conscripted soldiers are often sent to the front with limited training, and are regarded by their more experienced comrades as unfit for combat. “When the new guys get to the position, a lot of them run away at the first shell explosion,” a deputy commander fighting in Donetsk Region told Financial Times last month. “Some guys freeze [because] they are too afraid to shoot the enemy, and then they are the ones who leave in body bags or severely wounded,” another commander added.

https://www.rt.com/russia/606705-ukraine-new-mobilization-draft/

Before it was all denial.

This is a big step in the right direction.

Vatican sex abuse board calls for victim compensation

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has criticized the Catholic Church’s poor handling of clergy misconduct cases

Pope Francis’ child protection board has called for greater transparency from the Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints, as well as public apologies and financial compensation for victims, in an attempt to address the crisis in the ranks of the Catholic Church.

In its pilot annual report, issued on Tuesday, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the victims of clerical abuse should have greater access to information about their cases and that a clear policy on compensation was needed.

The commission also claimed that the Vatican office’s slow processing of cases and secrecy were retraumatizing to victims, while its refusal to publicly share full statistical information on its activities continues “to foment distrust among the faithful, especially the victim/survivor community.”

The report said that “civil and canonical processes can be difficult, slow, and even a source of ongoing victimization.” It also stressed that victims should have the right to compensation for their abuse, including financial reparations, and “it is important for survivors to be properly heard, accompanied, and supported.”

The commission presented a series of findings from around the world and made relevant recommendations for safeguarding minors. It cautioned that progress on the issue varied significantly around the world, noting that church abuse was not yet a “publicized issue” in some societies and warned that protections in parts of Central and South America, Africa and Asia were “inadequate.” It also proposed a special Vatican advocate or ombudsman to look after victims’ needs.

The Roman Catholic Church has been shaken by clergy sex abuse scandals across the world for decades. In 2023, a year-long study of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland found more than 1,000 such cases since the mid-20th century.

In 2021, a bombshell report by the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) showed that as many as 330,000 children may have been sexually abused by clergy and lay people in France from the 1950s to 2020.

Pope Francis created the commission for protecting minors in 2014, a year after his election. In 2019, he lifted a so-called ‘pontifical secrecy’ rule regarding clergy sexual abuse of minors.

One advocacy group that tracks abusers responded to the new report by saying the commission’s latest findings were “hampered by their limited purpose.”

“The only safeguarding test that matters is whether bishops are removing abusers,” Anne Barrett Boyle told the Associated Press, stating that the report “doesn’t give any measure of that, because the commission itself is powerless to do so.”

https://www.rt.com/news/606707-vatican-sex-abuse-victim-compensation/

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