theluckycountry wrote:You could wonder why Russia has taken so long to reclaim this territory but remember the dragging out of the war has successfully depleted the ukraine of troops and hardware and worn down the West's resolve to support them. Also, unlike the Israeli campaign, the slow progress has allowed innocent civilians to escape. Hundreds of thousands of military age men have simply fled the ukraine region, 700,000 into Germany alone. What are they doing there? Well they are not working, they are loafing off the welfare system so good luck getting them to move back. Soon the ukraine will be a retirement village composed of aged men and women.
Avdiivka was a very well fortified outpost, so it have taken some time to encircle it.
It was a nuisance too because control of it was allowing Ukrainians to shell city of Donieck.
Civilians have escaped from there long time ago.
Re Ukrainian draft dodgers - they seem to be everywhere. Poland is now full of them as well but now Ukrainian government is mulling ideas to get them extradited from EU countries, so they can be processed by meet mincer out there.
But our government is saying that we would not cooperate and extraditions are not going to happen unless refugee committed a crime here.
Overwhelming majority of them are employed and claiming benefits is rather rare here by working age Ukrainians.
But it is not easy to claim benefit in Poland with the exception of universal child benefit which everyone who has children gets.
Fewer than 1 in 5 Ukrainian refugees in Germany are employedNovember 2023-- Only a fraction of the estimated 700,000 Ukrainian refugees of working age have found employment following their arrival in Germany, a report from German newspaper Der Spiegel has revealed. According to the report, just 19 percent of Ukrainian refugees in Germany have found work with the rest currently living off the country’s welfare state.
This is a problem related to a way how Germany is run, not to Ukrainians.
Germany is designed in such a way to allow virtually any foreigner to come there and milk benefit system.
Benefits are so generous and easy to get that working there seems to be a stupid idea.
Would you carry on working if even more money are offered to you for free but under condition that you don't?
And should you need more money you can always do some plumbing/building services in grey zone and Ukrainians are very good in it.
They are akin to the Australian Aboriginal "nation" in that respect, which is no nation, and never was. They were just a diverse group of drifters that inhabited the land that became the Nation of Australian under White management. To have a nation you have to all work together. The Australian aboriginal doesn't work. They just loaf off welfare and get drunk in parks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGNYeZzXSec
One way or another this land (Australia) have belonged to them in the past and once someone else (Europeans) came it seems just that now they have to maintain and nurture these locals.
It is a form of rent payment.