The Polish government has called upon other European nations to halt welfare benefits to Ukrainian men of military age. “Stop paying those social security payments for people who are eligible for the Ukrainian draft. There should be no financial incentives for avoiding the draft in Ukraine,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Friday, September 13th, at a conference in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
Around 970,000 Ukrainian refugees have fled to neighbouring Poland since the start of Russia’s invasion two-and-a-half years ago. About a third of them—300,000 people—are men of military age, according to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, who added that there are an estimated one million men in total who have left Ukraine.
