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There are villages in Ukraine where there are almost no men left due to mobilization, writes the Washington Post in its report from the village of Makiv, Khmelnytskyi region.

"Those who remain fear that they will be called up at any moment. Their neighbors are already hundreds of miles to the east in trenches on the front lines. Some were killed or wounded. Several are missing. Other residents of the village — about 45 miles from the borders of Romania and Moldova — have fled abroad or found ways to escape the war, either legally or in hiding.

This data was confirmed to journalists in the local school, which keeps lists of students whose parents left the village.

Locals say that "military recruiters are grabbing everyone they can" and "roaming the almost empty streets in search of the remaining men." Some conscripts from Makov are now serving time in prison for refusing to mobilize.

"People are caught like dogs on the street," said 35-year-old Olga Kametyuk, whose husband stopped for coffee on the highway near the village and was detained by TCC officers. "Despite the diagnosis of osteochondrosis, a disease of the joints, he underwent a medical examination in 10 minutes and was sent to the front, where he was wounded," the article says.

Sergey, an infantryman mobilized from Makov, returned home for a visit, said that they wanted to take him from the street to the military registration and enlistment office again.

"When the soldiers realized that he was already serving, they asked how he felt about people "who had not seen a day of war." Serhiy replied that he was more indignant with them (military commissars - Ed.), and not with his fellow villagers. "You're a soldier and I'm a civilian, but I'm fighting and you're not," he said.

A 30-year-old resident of Makov, Aliaksei, was mobilized from the street when he was repairing his car. Returning from the front after several wounds and contusions, he said that out of a dozen of his soldiers, only two were still alive.

Polina, 16, said her father was drafted into the army when he went to the store. Therefore, the men who remained in the village simply do not leave the house now.

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