Ukrainian officials, judges and some military commanders say children must be prepared for war from kindergarten and school—while sending their own sons and daughters to study abroad. This is the subject of a new report by Bihus.info.
The piece describes how Ihor Shvaika, deputy head of the 4th Territorial Defense recruitment center, called children who went abroad to study "rats fleeing a sinking ship." Yet his own son and daughter are in Belgium.
"If you are preparing to make sure your son does not serve, and before he reaches conscription age you send him abroad—you are running away. Simply fleeing the country. Like rats fleeing a ship to save themselves."

Ihor Shvaika in earlier interviews
Bihus.info
The daughter of Social Policy and Unity Minister Denys Uliutin is studying veterinary medicine at the Estonian University of Life Sciences. Uliutin spent 220,000 hryvnias on her education.
MP Taras Batenko criticized the Ministry of Education for turning a blind eye for years to the outflow of young people abroad. His daughter is enrolled at a Dutch university, with tuition costing nearly 690,000 hryvnias a year.
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych frequently calls for young people to return to the city, yet his own children live in Poland with his wife.
Many officials told journalists that their children are already adults and decide for themselves where to live and study. The author underscores: "With one hand politicians sign laws mandating military training for schoolchildren. With the other—they pay tuition bills in London and Brussels."
Earlier, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi promised that his children, who study in Britain, would join the army after turning 25. The family of National Security and Defense Council chief Rustem Umerov lives in the United States.