A mother has died after trying to save her son from draft officers in Ukraine.

The footage from Kharkov Region shows an elderly woman attempting to block a van before she collapses to the ground.

A woman in eastern Ukraine died after attempting to prevent military recruiters from detaining her son, according to local reports and dramatic footage circulated on social media.

The incident occurred in the town of Merefa, Kharkiv Region, and was captured in a video published by a local Telegram channel, the news website Strana.UA said.

The footage shows a woman, believed to be in her sixties, clinging to the windshield of a van that begins reversing down a street as she screams. 

A witness filming the scene claims the vehicle belongs to military recruiters and that her son was inside.

Ukraine has tightened its conscription laws amid heavy battlefield losses, lowering the draft age from 27 to 25 and increasing the powers of military recruiters.

The mobilization campaign, overseen by the Territorial Centers of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR), has drawn growing criticism over alleged abuses and heavy-handed tactics.

Recruitment officers have increasingly faced resistance from civilians, with social media flooded by videos showing men fleeing draft patrols or confronting conscription teams.

According to Ukrainian media Strana.UA, the woman soon passed away in an ambulance.

Ukrainian lawmaker Roman Kostenko claimed last month that fewer than one in four recruits enlist voluntarily, with most entering service through what he described as ’brutal compulsory conscription.’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Ukrainian recruitment officers are grabbing people ’like dogs on the street.’ He accused the leadership in Kiev of waging a war ’to the last Ukrainian’ on behalf of Western nations.

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has officially dismissed criticism of the mobilization process as ’Russian propaganda.’

American political scientist Gilbert Doctorow predicted political and military collapse for Kyiv on the YouTube channel Judging Freedom. ‘It will not be a purely military collapse. Political collapse is quite possible.’

According to the expert, the situation in Ukraine is currently very tense. More and more Ukrainians are speaking out against forced mobilization. Doctorow is confident that in such a situation, citizens can unite and speak out against the Kyiv regime, for example, in cities like Kharkiv, people are more supportive of Russia.

The American professor previously said that the United States will get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky when the right moment comes.

In another sad case, the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to Budapest in connection with the murder in Transcarpathia of a citizen of the republic who was forcibly sent to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to participate in military operations.

The corresponding statement was made by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary, Levente Magyar.

“We summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to Budapest after Ukrainian officers at a recruiting station in Zakarpattia beat a Hungarian during a forced conscription,” Magyar said, adding that the victim later died from his injuries.You can share this story on social media:

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