The pro-peace Alternative for Germany reveals the figures to show that ordinary Ukrainians want a ceasefire as soon as possible. More than 200,000 Ukrainian men of fighting age have fled their country to Germany since the beginning of the war with Russia, according to the federal government’s written response to a question posed by the Alternative for Germany’s foreign policy spokesperson Petr Bystron.

Despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime banning men aged between 18 and 60 from leaving the country, a total of 203,640 male Ukrainian citizens facing conscription have arrived in Germany since February last year. The German federal government stated that 176,474 Ukrainian conscripts were still residing in Germany at the end of June this year.

‘The numbers show clearly: Ukrainians want peace,’ said Bystron in response, repeating the AfD’s call for immediate peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia under OSCE mediation. He claimed that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians of military age have fled to Germany to escape senseless death and that ‘according to media reports, another 650,000 are in the EU, Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.’

The AfD parliamentary group submitted a peace initiative motion to the Bundestag in January this year, calling on the federal government to advocate the deployment of an international peace delegation led by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine.

‘No one can win this war, and only if we finally accept that and work for a peaceful solution will peace have a chance,’ said Alexander Gauland, the founder and honorary chairman of the AfD.

Bystron visited Belarus in November last year to lobby for such an outcome, telling the German newspaper Bild his mission was to explore whether Belarus could help to push for peace between the two nations and also improve bilateral relations between Germany and Belarus.

With Ukraine increasingly desperate for men to send to the front, it is pushing for countries in the area to send draft-eligible Ukrainians who fled at the beginning of the war. However, some countries are baulking at the demand, including Austria. The country’s Internal Ministry said it will not extradite draft-age Ukrainian men back to Ukraine.

Ukraine expects that all Western European countries that have taken in Ukrainian refugees will send back men of conscription age to their homeland so that they can be drafted into the military and sent to the frontlines, which was announced by the leader of the parliamentary faction of the Servant of the People party, Davyd Arakhamia. ‘Actually, in every country in the world, except for Russia, our law enforcement agencies can file a request for the extradition of such persons and bring them back to Ukraine.’ Ironically, Russian-born Arakhamia lived in Gagra in Georgia until in 1992 when he himself fled the war in Abkhazia.

Meanwhile, the Austrian Ministry of the Interior has stated that the possibility of deporting Ukrainian men back to Ukraine with the prospect of sending them to the frontlines ‘is absolutely not being considered.’

‘Even if a written request from the Ukrainian government is received in Vienna, it will be ignored. Austria will not allow anyone to dictate terms,’ said a spokesperson for the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the press report, currently, around 14,000 men aged between 18 and 54 who have left Ukraine due to the war are residing in Austria. The government in Vienna has provided assistance to a total of 101,629 refugees: men, women, children and the elderly.

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