A few friends of mine who have sponsored or housed Ukrainian refugee's here in Calgary were telling me how a few of the families are now going to be reunified here slowly. Several of the men have been approved with papers to come to Canada, which sounds great and is excellent. I feel for everybody involved in this terrible war!
When I asked how on earth they could technically be leaving Ukraine as the males are not allowed to leave so that they can fight, it was made very clear that with as little as $5k, you can get across the boarder to Poland and than your good to go.
Now I am wondering how many families who have left Ukraine to parts of Europe and North America, are now sending money in order to have their males be unified with the family.
If this continues in greater numbers, will this have a greater affect on the war? Technically Russia has a lot of available men and manpower but if Ukraine is losing a lot of military aged or physically capable men, how does this affect the war?
Obv corruption and human smuggling, trafficking's and other said offenses occur all over the world, the way this was being said that it's an open scenario. Pay $5k and get on outta of this hell hole.
Who knows what happens and I really wish for everybody involved all the best but I gotta say, I was surprised at the level of this and was thinking about the longer range for Ukraine as a whole.
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