”Earlier this year, the government stepped up mobilization to increase the army’s ranks by hundreds of thousands, on top of the more than 1 million currently defending the country.Yet, the effort to scale up Ukrainian forces against an enemy with more manpower and weaponry has been tainted by mushrooming corruption scandals. Officials in the Ukrainian healthcare system are suspected of taking bribes to help men avoid mobilization by obtaining fake disability documents through MSEC, the state medical commission responsible for clearing men to be fit to fight.“From a human perspective, what jerks,” a Ukrainian Special Forces sniper who goes by the callsign Bart told the Kyiv Independent, responding to the alleged corrupt schemes aiding draft dodgers.“We do our job (on the front) because someone has to do it.