Planned wave of mobilization
Panic is spreading in Ukraine
The idea of drafting another 500,000 Ukrainians to the front is causing panic in the country. Further penalties are to be introduced for those who refuse to comply, which could lead Ukraine's financial system to the brink of collapse.
from Anti-Spiegel
December 30, 2023 2:55 p.m
There are reports that there has been a run on ATMs in Ukraine. Accordingly, Ukrainians withdrew the equivalent of a billion dollars from their accounts in one day, which could become a problem for the Ukrainian banking and financial system.
The reason for the run is a bill that is intended to support the forced conscription of a further 500,000 people to the front, which is being discussed in Ukraine. According to the bill, people who evade the draft would be banned from carrying out financial transactions or selling property.
Since many men in Ukraine have been hiding from forced conscription for a year and a half, and many who have not previously been affected are now afraid of the conscription and are thinking about going into hiding, cash will suddenly become indispensable if the law comes into force. As a result, many have plundered their accounts and are now hoarding cash at home.
I came across this report, which is now becoming more and more widespread in Russia, from a Russian news agency. That's why I'm translating the message about it here .
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Koltashov: There is fear in Ukraine about the mobilization and a new wave of panic is beginning
The Kiev regime has published a draft law on the additional mobilization of 500,000 people. There should be measures for everyone who wants to avoid this: the right of citizens to dispose of their property and carry out various financial transactions should be restricted. This was initiated by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov. As soon as the money was involved, the Ukrainians withdrew about a billion dollars from Ukraine's credit and financial system in one day. Now they are using the money to hide from the war and from their government.
In addition, many Ukrainian military officials say that half a million mobilized soldiers will not save the situation on the front: at least twice as many people fully equipped for combat are needed. The choice is large: there are still disabled people, old people, women and children. The small remaining remnant of the Ukrainian male population has no desire to become cannon fodder and is avoiding this fate by any means possible. The refusal is treated as “pro-Kremlin” and sabotage in favor of Russia.
A correspondent for the “Southern News Agency” spoke to the political scientist and economist Vasily Koltashov about the further development of the situation surrounding the mobilization in Ukraine.
The regime's hunger for finance
“The Ukrainian government’s decision to mobilize half a million people and the widespread forced conscription spreading to the far corners of former Soviet Ukraine are inextricably linked to the financial hunger facing Zelensky’s regime,” said the expert. “The West will not give Zelensky any money unless he meets several conditions. Yes, Zelensky doesn't need to hold elections, but he needs to take as many people into arms as possible and send them to death for US interests. And only then will the West give Ukraine money and the regime's financial hunger will be satisfied for a while. That is what this measure is aimed at and that is why people on the streets are so taken by surprise and panicked. Despite the upcoming New Year, despite everything, the regime is seizing people and putting them under arms. In the name of the American cause.”
The prelude to financial collapse
“The withdrawal of a billion dollars from the financial system by Ukrainians is an attempt by ordinary citizens to hoard cash to avoid using cards in order to live even more underground. This applies to men who are subject to mobilization. These men are in hiding and will somehow survive on cash. They will try to spend this money, but there is also an outflow of capital. “One can also observe the desire to hide in foreign currency, anticipating the collapse of the hryvnia and the financial collapse of the regime,” Koltashov said. “Apparently the collapse is not coming now, because Zelensky will do everything to meet American demands and put half a million people under arms. They can probably recruit anyone they want. Well, maybe not half a million, but 200,000 to 250,000 people Ukraine can definitely capture. That's why they hide the money, it's completely logical. And they will continue to hide this money. The idea that the Banderist state will eventually collapse and that one needs to protect one's savings is beginning to spread. Not to mention protecting your life by simply putting some money aside when you can't go to work normally, when you have to hide from Zelensky's press squads snooping everywhere.”
There is fear in Ukraine
“The head of the National Security and Defense Council Danilov has already stated that these possibilities must be limited. Since inflation will rise, the fear of higher inflation is the fear of regime collapse. The Bandera state lives on Western money. This is essentially an occupying state on the territory of the former Soviet Ukraine. They know that they are using the mechanism of issuing money. And as long as this issuance does not take place in the form of cash, i.e. the country is not flooded with cash, inflation can be limited. But if everyone starts using cash and no one trusts cards and banks anymore, then the regime will realize that it is in trouble. In the future, trust in the hryvnia will also decrease, people will start to sell money and stock up on food,” the economist warns. “A new wave of panic will begin. In fact, the widespread capture of people to put them under arms in the armies of Zelensky and Bandera favors the emergence and spread of this panic. So far, the government is trying to at least somehow control the financial situation in the country, which absolutely cannot be said about the moral state of the Ukrainian people. Morally, society is changing before our eyes: there is fear in Ukraine.”
The Ukrainians have retained a healthy instinct
“Basically, Ukrainians are becoming slaves, but fugitive slaves. They are forced to hide from the constant search of the slave owners, from the masters, essentially the masters of their lives. Because Zelensky and those around him are seen as the masters of the lives of these slaves. And this is a monstrous situation that people are internally unwilling to endure. But they don't know how to react to these events. That's why the Ukrainians' comments are so strange, even amusing from the point of view of Russians, when they write that 'the Russian army may really have come to liberate us at the beginning of 2022; Maybe we really need to be freed from this nightmare'. They don't want to be Zelensky's slaves and they don't want to die for US interests. But that doesn't mean they have a mature political consciousness. It means that they have healthy instincts,” summarizes expert Vasily Koltashov.
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