Scuffles in Lviv after the mobilization of a young man
Clashes broke out on Wednesday evening in Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine, after the mobilization of a young man by soldiers, authorities and media reported on Thursday July 9, as tensions grew around recruitment for the front.
Videos posted on social media show a crowd of several dozen people surrounding a vehicle and shouting “Shame!” » and insults, before smashing the windshield and spilling it onto the road to applause.
According to the regional military recruitment center, these unrest broke out after the mobilization of a young man who was stopped in the street and who had “violated the rules of military registration”. “What we saw yesterday in Lviv is absolutely appalling,” the city’s mayor, Andriï Sadovy, regretted on Telegram, saying that “obstructing the army in the exercise of its functions, destroying property or taking the law into one’s own hands is unacceptable.”
Russia criticizes NATO’s “irresponsible decisions”
Moscow described the commitments made by NATO in favor of Ukraine during its last summit in Turkey as “irresponsible”, also accusing European states of preparing “for an armed conflict with Russia”.
The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized the member countries of the Atlantic alliance for making “irresponsible decisions likely to lead to catastrophe” and for focusing on the “militarization of the European continent,” according to a press release from this ministry.
