Ukraine Army Drafts Disabled Man With No Arms

While the Ukraine civil war, which just last summer was the biggest market-moving event and media discussion topic, has faded into the collective subconsciousness, for residents on both sides of the proxy conflict it continues to be an all too real and tragic event.
As Sputnik reports, Ukraine’s sixth wave of mobilization, launched on June 18 in connection with Kiev’s continuing military operation against independence supporters in Donbass, is set to continue until mid-August. Ukrainian authorities had plans to call up between 100,000-150,000 men to the military in 2015, with President Poroshenko signing a decree in March extending the army’s size to 250,000 personnel. Last week, the General Staff of the country’s Armed Forces extended the period of service for the third wave of mobilization, conscripts who were called up last September, to October 31.
But while tragic, the ongoing collapse of yet another state which the US State Department decided to convert into a proxy warzone to engage Russia, recently turned into a grotesque farce for Anatoliy Lyubimov, a resident of central Ukraine’s Kozyatinskiy district, who recently received a draft notice mobilizing him to join the Ukraine army in its ongoing war with the Donetsk separatists. The reason:Anatoliy is disabled and has no arms.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on 07/17/2015.