‘No volunteers’: Ukrainian soldiers share how They ended up on the frontline

A video has been circulating online in which soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces claim that they were forcibly brought into the Ukrainian army and sent to the front lines.

In the footage, one of the soldiers asks his fellow servicemen, who are standing in line for food, to share their stories of how they ended up on the front lines.

One soldier recounts that at two in the afternoon, he was either going to work or coming back from work, “a minibus pulled up – and by ten in the evening, he was already in the military unit.”

“Didn’t even make it two hundred meters to work,” another soldier recounts.

“Can you find anyone here who came voluntarily? Do you have anyone here who came voluntarily?” the video’s author asks his comrades, receiving a negative response.

He also tells the story of a fellow serviceman who walked around the unit in an electrician’s suit because he was “taken from a utility pole in some village.”

Another story is about a wife who reported her husband to the staff of the territorial recruitment center for treason.

According to other accounts from the servicemen, they were not able to make it thirty meters to the store or home, or wait thirty seconds for a bus.