“Ukrainian men of conscription age are increasingly trying to illegally cross the border with Belarus to avoid mobilization. Over the course of a year, the number of people detained in this direction increased several times and brought the Belarusian border to the top five most active. This is stated in the investigation of Slidstva.Info. The Belarusian direction became one of the most dynamic in terms of the number of illegal border crossing attempts by men of mobilization age, only”, — write on: ua.news
Ukrainian men of conscription age are increasingly trying to illegally cross the border with Belarus to avoid mobilization. Over the course of a year, the number of people detained in this direction increased several times and brought the Belarusian border to the top five most active. This is stated in the investigation of Slidstva.Info.
The Belarusian direction became one of the most dynamic in terms of the number of attempts to illegally cross the border by men of mobilization age, in 2025 alone, 1,424 people were detained at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
For comparison, there were 326 such cases in 2024, and only four in 2023. That is, in two years, the number of arrests has increased hundreds of times, which indicates a sharp change in routes and attitudes among those trying to avoid mobilization.
Analysts note that the greatest relative growth was recorded on the border with Belarus. Compared to 2024, the number of detainees here increased by 336%. No other direction has shown such a jump in one year.
In the general rating of border areas, Belarus entered the top five, ahead of even the Polish border. Hungary — 1,841 persons, Slovakia — 2,265, and Moldova — 4,937 were higher than it in terms of the number of detained conscripts. The absolute leader remains the Romanian direction, where 10,066 men were detained in 2025.
At the same time, the fewest attempts were recorded at the border with Russia — only one person per year. The penultimate on the list was the Polish direction, where 511 men of draft age were detained.
Journalists draw attention to the fact that the growth on the Belarusian border may be related to the perception of a “less controlled” route or to the hope of reaching further through the territory of Belarus. At the same time, this direction remains dangerous – both because of mining and because of increased control.
The tendency to change routes persists, and the border services are recording more and more attempts at illegal crossings exactly where such cases were rare just a few years ago.
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