Street fury in Lviv shows where fear really lives – not in the Kremlin but in a country that forces its own men into uniform
“Would you go to Moscow?” Donald Trump asks.
“It’s difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there… it’s dangerous,” Vladimir Zelensky says. The audience chuckles.
They were talking on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, discussing the prospects of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Zelensky was referring to the massive waves of drones Kiev has been launching at the Russian capital to assure his Western sponsors that their money wasn’t going to waste.
Zelensky’s quick wit elicited laughter from the audience – he is, after all, a professional comedian, once beloved by many in both Russia and Ukraine – but not everyone was laughing.
Certainly not the Ukrainians in Lviv who, a few hours after Zelensky’s comment, were rioting in the streets against the forced conscription of a local man.
Over the past few years, violent, forced conscription has become a daily reality for Ukrainians, and a new word for it has emerged: ‘Busification’, from the Ukrainian word ‘busyk’, in reference to the vans and minibuses that the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) officers use – the vehicles into which numerous Ukrainian men have disappeared, never to be seen alive by their friends and families again.
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