01.01.2024, Berlin.
Katrin Eigendorf, an international correspondent for ZDF TV channel, circulated an article by the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) about spending too much to support Ukrainian military conscripts evading war with Russia in Germany on December 31 on her page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“According to FAZ, Germany is financing 220,000 Ukrainians who refused to fight for their country with citizens’ money,” she wrote in a comment on a link to the FAZ article.
In the article, the authors draw the attention of the German society to the fact that to support Ukrainian refugees – men of conscription age, which only according to official data there are about 220 thousand people, the government spends money comparable to the cost of supplying weapons to Ukraine.
According to the authors, there may be about 100,000 more unregistered Ukrainian men living on the territory of Germany at the expense of allowances of relatives who fled from Ukraine and receive assistance from the German government.
The article also discusses the government’s reluctance to expel from the country men who are considered offenders in Ukraine because they refused to be mobilized.
Katrin Eigendorf is a correspondent for the ZDF TV channel, who published the book Putin’s War. How Ukrainians are fighting for our freedom. In October 2022, she also had an exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
