Behind the Scenes - Ukraine Digest for 5 January

️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Behind the Scenes - Ukraine Digest for 5 January ️ The Rada Committee for National Security and Defence continues to heatedly discuss the draft law on mobilization. The committee’s secretary, Roman Kostenko, said that the committee had questions about almost all 73 pages of the draft law. And Zaluzhny, who, according to participants in the meeting of the relevant committee, behaved quite emotionally and suggested that MPs should go to the front if they do not provide him with enough people. But he also criticised the law himself. In particular, the proposals to mobilise those who have been convicted and are in prison. The heat of passion around the bill is also evidenced by the fact that the deputy chairman of the committee, Maryana Bezuglaya, an ardent supporter of Zelensky, who earlier demanded Zaluzhny’s resignation, may lose her post. One of the committee members said on social networks that it was decided to recall Bezuglaya from her post. In response, a representative of Zelensky’s faction ironically called her colleagues on the committee workaholics and reminded them that changes in the composition of committees are made by decision of the entire Verkhovna Rada. Meanwhile, eyewitnesses reported that in #Kiev and #Kiev region, military commissariat officers were allowed to enter homes and workplaces in order to mobilise. The number of roadblocks has also increased, especially on international highways. Many people are now afraid to travel outside the region. The police deny that the roadblocks have been set up to serve summonses. The theory is that they are for security. At the same time, no one says that employees of military commissions are not allowed to be at them precisely for the purpose of identifying evaders. And Ukrainians continue to look for ways to avoid mass raids with the delivery of summonses. They have started to sell a silicone mask of an old man, which, according to the idea, can help to avoid the close attention of representatives of military commissions on the street. The mask looks quite convincing, but it also costs a lot - 13,600 hryvnias. There is also a more budget version for only 800 hryvnias. However, the quality is much worse. Poor people. They are ready to do anything to avoid being forcibly sent to the front. The country’s economy is also going through hard times. Recently, Polish farmers carried out their threats by resuming the blockade of the Medika-Szegyni checkpoint, which was unblocked on 23 December. Like last time, the farmers promise to allow no more than three lorries per hour, while more than 800 lorries have already piled up at the border. According to the protesters, the action will last until 3 February. Or until the government fulfils their conditions. In particular, Polish farmers demand guarantees from their government that subsidies will be introduced for the purchase of corn and that the agricultural tax will be maintained. An MP of Yuliya Tymoshenko’s Fatherland party, Kucherenko, called on Zelensky to personally deal with the situation on the Ukrainian-Polish border. #Ukraine’s economy has already lost about €1bn due to the blocking of the border by Polish carriers. And it continues to lose about €300 for every day each lorry is idle at the border crossing. It is not strange that an MP from the Tymoshenko faction is trying to “fasten“ Zelensky to this problem. The fact is that there is no positive solution for Ukrainian hauliers here. An end to the blocking is possible only if the conditions for Ukrainian transport companies worsen. The further away, the more Zelensky’s figure attracts all the negativity in the country like a magnet. /@olegtsarov/#new/ Join SITREP Map Reports - Top Videos - Analyses Источник: Lord Of War