The European Commission plans to amend the rules on the admission of Ukrainian war refugees from spring 2027, and has proposed that Ukrainian men of military age who arrive in the EU should no longer be automatically entitled to protection, although they would retain the right to apply for asylum. In Ukraine, military-age men are subject to an exit ban. Harsh but rightJOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Der Tagesspiegel shows understanding for the new regulation (Germany): “Up to now Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland have been granted refuge in the EU. This has applied not only to women, children and elderly people in need of care, but also to men. ... However with this practice the EU has exacerbated a conflict of objectives: it wants Russia to lose its war of aggression against Ukraine. But who is to defend the country if those who are fit for military service can easily evade conscription? ... If there are too few soldiers available, the prospects of success diminish and the principle of military service equity suffers. The people who are fighting have to spend longer periods at the front, get fewer breaks, and the risk to their lives increases. ... [Ukraine] needs men fit for military service to succeed – however tough this may be in individual cases.” Moral sovereignty revoked Peace researcher Vicenç Fisas writes in eldiario.es (Spain): “This decision eliminates the only space of genuine freedom left to those who, at enormous personal cost, had decided they couldn’t or didn’t want to take part in this war. ... Desertion is not cowardice, but in many cases the only act of moral sovereignty left to a person. ... More than half a million young people, Ukrainians and Russians alike, have risked everything to escape this logic. They are not deserters in the negative sense, but people who do not want to become instruments of a violence that destroys them, regardless of whether or not they survive.”