In Switzerland, some politicians are calling to help Ukraine return men of draft age, – Media

In Switzerland, some politicians are urging to help Ukraine return men of conscription age.

This is reported by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Christian Wasserfallen, a counselor of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), called for an agreement with Ukraine on readmission to return 11,000 men who currently reside in Switzerland to their homeland.

“We do not want to shelter de facto deserters who fled from a country whose defensive war now requires their presence. This would help Ukraine solve its personnel problem and at the same time relieve the burden on heavily burdened Swiss migration structures,” Wasserfallen said.

He noted that the protection program is primarily aimed at women, children, and the elderly.

The idea of ​​concluding an agreement was supported by the Swiss People’s Party. Pascal Schmid, its head of asylum issues, plans to conduct an investigation in the National Council.

“The fact that Switzerland has been accepting deserters for the past two years and supporting them with tax money has brought the status of protection to absurdity. We demonstrate a lack of solidarity with Ukraine, which is at a dead end on the front line. If the existence of Switzerland were threatened, we would not be happy if other countries hosted hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and still thought they were doing something good with them,” Schmid said.

The Ministry of Justice of Switzerland states that to change the approach, the law must be changed, as currently, under it, protection is extended to all Ukrainian refugees, “regardless of whether they are potentially subject to military service in Ukraine.”

Earlier, the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, stated that Ukrainians who legally reside in the FRG will be able to stay in Germany, even despite the Ukrainian government’s desire to return them home.

The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council believes that Europe “is entirely fine” with the presence of Ukrainian refugees, and it will not send them home.