Ukraine's mobilisation campaign picks up despite faltering enthusiasm

A recruiters officer with the call sign 'Fantomas' speaks with a man on a street as he checks papers of men and hands out military summonses, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 3, 2024. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KYIV (Reuters) - Seeing the military patrol handing out call-up papers on the outskirts of Kyiv, one man slipped into a nearby store. Another refused to even stop for the officers. Others, however, quietly obliged.

While men may be coming round to Ukraine's ramped-up mobilisation drive to replenish troop numbers more than 28 months since Russia's invasion, they are less eager to fight than before, said a draft officer, who uses the call sign "Fantomas".