Should Europe welcome deserters from the Russian army?

by time news

“The mobilization for the Russian armed forces places Europeans in a dilemma”, assure The press. As soon as the announcement, on September 21, of a mobilization of 300,000 Russian reservists, the sites of airlines offering flights to leave Russia were stormed. Demonstrations for peace were also organized in some thirty towns across the country. Which prompts the Austrian conservative title to wonder:

“Should the EU quickly grant asylum to Russians who do not want to fight in Ukraine, at the risk of alienating Ukrainians?”

In Germany, the parliamentary groups of the Greens and the Liberals are campaigning in this direction. “Anyone who today faces mobilization and does not want to be part of an army of war criminals opposes Putin’s system

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