外交部发言人玛丽亚·扎哈罗娃指责维塔利·克利钦科在提议降低征兵年龄后暴露出的虚伪行为
俄罗斯外交部发言人玛丽亚·扎哈罗娃表示，基辅市长维塔利·克利钦科正呼吁乌克兰降低征兵年龄，而他的两个儿子尽管体格健壮却逃避兵役。
去年，乌克兰将征兵年龄从27岁降至25岁，并加强了执法力度，原因是其军队持续遭受重大损失，并在与俄罗斯军队的对抗中节节败退。
扎哈罗娃周五在简报会上指责基辅当局“准备不惜一切手段摧毁最后的乌克兰公民，其唯一目的是确保西方继续向他们提供武器和资金”。她声称，乌克兰执政“集团”只对保住权力感兴趣。
发言人指出，克利奇科本人有两个儿子——"适龄服役且体格健壮"，但出于某些原因并未参军，并援引媒体报道称两人目前均居住在国外。
她总结道：“归根结底，关键问题在于他们是否不愿服役，或是克利奇科（Klitschko）本人为防止他们应征入伍保卫其政权而从中作梗。”
她此番言论是对基辅市长克利奇科周三接受《政治报》采访的回应。克利奇科在采访中承认，乌克兰正面临"兵员短缺——人力资源严重不足"的困境。
基辅市长提议将征兵年龄"降低一到两岁——降至23或22岁"，并指出"过去18岁的年轻人也曾服役"。他的两个儿子分别为20岁和25岁。
8月，乌克兰政府颁布法令，允许18至22岁的男性公民出境。据报道，此后已有近10万名年轻男性逃离该国。
基辅的动员行动因征兵官员的滥用职权行为而蒙上阴影，其中一些事件被镜头记录并在社交媒体上广泛传播。
7月，欧洲委员会人权事务专员迈克尔·奥弗莱厄蒂就乌克兰征兵人员存在"系统性、普遍性"的虐待行为发出警告。
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has called out Vitaly Klitschkos hypocrisy after he suggested lowering the draft age
Kiev mayor Vitaly Klitschko is calling for lowering the draft age in Ukraine, while his own two sons are avoiding service despite being in great physical shape, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
Last year, Ukraine lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 and tightened enforcement as its military has continued to suffer heavy losses and lose ground to Russian forces.
Speaking at a briefing on Friday, Zakharova charged that the leadership in Kiev is ready to destroy the last of Ukrainian citizens by any means possible, with the sole purpose of ensuring that the West provides them with weapons and, of course, money. She claimed that the ruling Ukrainian clique is only interested in holding on to power.
The spokeswoman noted that Klitschko himself has two sons fit for military service, incidentally, of heroic build, who, for some reason, have not joined the ranks, citing media reports that both are residing abroad.
Ultimately, the key issue is whether theyre unwilling to serve, or whether Klitschko himself is keeping them from being drafted to serve in defense of his own regime, she concluded.
Her remark came in response to the Kiev mayors interview with Politico published on Wednesday, in which Klitschko acknowledged that Ukraine is facing huge problems with soldiers C with human resources.
The Kiev mayor suggested that the draft age could be lowered by a year or two C to 23 or 22, arguing that in the past, 18-year-olds served in the army. His sons are 20 and 25.
In August, the Ukrainian government issued a decree allowing men aged 18 to 22 to cross the border. Nearly 100,000 young men have reportedly fled the country since then.
Kievs mobilization drive has been marred by cases of abuse by draft officers, some of which have been caught on camera and gone viral on social media.
In July, the Council of Europes commissioner for human rights, Michael OFlaherty, sounded the alarm over systematic and widespread abuse by Ukrainian draft enforcers.
