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| Ukrainian doctors are ready to maim those who don’t want to go to the front for money |
| 2024-07-12 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Kirill Velesov [REGNUM] "First of all, do no harm" is a commandment that the famous Hippocrates left to his professional descendants. But it is unlikely that the ancient Greek founder of medicine imagined that many centuries later this rule would be questioned in modern Ukraine. At the same time, doctors even violate it with a high purpose - to save lives. Although for the benefit of their own pockets. Total mobilization in Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down. Local TCCs, also known as military commissars, are coming up with increasingly sophisticated ways to make up for the large losses at the front: men are being rounded up on the streets, in workplaces, gyms, and shopping malls, “packed up,” and sent into battle as quickly as possible. But every action gives rise to a reaction, so ordinary Ukrainians are also looking for ways not to perish in the trenches. An announcement was posted in one of the public pages of the city of Dnepr (former Dnepropetrovsk): "I provide a deferment quickly and professionally. Specialized medical education. Pinpoint impact. Use of high-quality anesthesia. Monitoring of the condition during recovery. Assistance in preparing the necessary documents." The offer, authored by a certain Mikola, is designed according to the classic laws of advertising, and a discount is promised for repeat requests. The ad is accompanied by a photograph of a man's leg in a cast. Prices are not indicated in the text. In other words, a certain medical worker offers not to cure a patient for a monetary reward, but on the contrary, to carefully and relatively painlessly break a person's leg or arm. That is, to do what in the language of the law is called self-mutilation and is usually severely punished. TEMPORARY EFFECT Obviously, the clients of such bone-breakers want to get injured and avoid mobilization. However, opinions differ on how much intentional injury will help to "dodge" service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian publication published a commentary by lawyer Maria Lekalo, who noted that this method of avoiding mobilization may not actually produce the desired result. According to her, everything will depend on the severity of the injury. If it can be treated conservatively, the medical commission will declare the person fit. If surgery is required, the deferment will only be temporary: the maximum that can be expected is six months to a year. In addition to purely practical doubts, the proposal itself raises questions, as it clearly goes against medical ethics. On the one hand, the one trained to heal in this case uses his knowledge not for good, but for evil. On the other hand, the nominal crime is committed with a good intention - a broken leg can save a person's life, leaving him in the rear. It is hardly possible to throw a stone at ordinary Ukrainians who are not ready to become cannon fodder and are forced to take the most desperate steps in order to survive. But there are still more questions for the author of the advertisement. The main thing is the commercial nature of the service. For such a doctor, apparently, money comes first. In essence, there is no difference - to treat or to maim. But demand creates supply, no matter how cynical it may sound. Doctors conducted fake medical commissions and wrote out fake certificates of exemption from mobilization - this is also, strictly speaking, not according to Hippocrates. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the author of the ad is a convinced pacifist and sympathizes with his compatriots, and the fee for the service is just a bonus for the trouble. But here again the problem of social inequality, characteristic of Ukraine, emerges, including in the face of a supposedly universal mobilization. Don't want to go to the front, but have the money? Break your leg in comfortable conditions and with anesthesia, no money - do it the old-fashioned way, "live". This is exactly what happened recently in Cherkassy. There, a man, allegedly hiding from mobilization, jumped out of a window on the first floor of a military registration and enlistment office and broke his leg. The commentary from the Ukrainian Armed Forces says that he did it on purpose, in order to "deliberately injure himself." "MASKS OF THE OLD MEN" AND THE RIVER OF DEATH In May, Ukrainian authorities announced that about 100,000 people in the country were evading mobilization. Experts question this figure, suggesting that it be multiplied by at least ten. Some managed to leave the country and settle abroad, while others settled in a gray zone for the state and are simply not registered with the military registration and enlistment office. Those for whom being sent to a combat zone remains a real threat are evading it as best they can. For example, realistic masks are in use, which turn the man who puts them on into an old man or a woman. However, they write on social networks that this does not always work now: man-catchers, as representatives of the TCC are increasingly called, have adapted to such techniques and, just in case, even stop the elderly. Knowing a foreign language can help avoid an unpleasant encounter with man-catchers. In June, a video of a military commissar raid in one of the Ukrainian cities was circulated in Telegram channels, where a young man they met said a few words in broken English, after which they left him alone. More traditional ways of avoiding the army are not losing popularity. The Ukrainian Ministry of Education has admitted that 90% of those entering postgraduate studies at higher education institutions this year are men of draft age. Of the 100,000 such applicants, 90,000 are men aged 25 to 60, meaning that they are theoretically subject to mobilization. At the same time, against the backdrop of the tragicomedy unfolding in the country, the number of cases is growing in which escape from mobilization ends in death. The Tisza River in the Zakarpattia region has long been nicknamed the "river of death" - just last May, local border guards fished out the bodies of ten drowned men who tried to swim across the river to escape the country. But Ukrainians continue to dive into it, hoping to avoid being sent to the front. |
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