Letter from Ukraine: How will my mom survive if I’m drafted?

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Fresh from the fire and smoke and bullet-peppered trees, I campaigned relentlessly for Western military aid as Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and moved on to the eastern region of Donbas.

There’s a video of me escorting them into the bomb shelter in the early days of the Russian onslaught, one I later shared in a short interview with France 24.

Her list of VIPs included  International Olympic Committee Chairman Juan Antonio Samaranch and other dignitaries like the head of the Pakistani General Staff.

But unlike him, my mom never had “disability papers.” And it’s undocumented — or under-documented — special needs folks like her whose lives are at risk because of Ukraine’s new turbocharged mobilization law.

The new law does grant draft immunity — for police officers, prosecutors, judges, lawmakers and senior government officials; to certain journalists, artists and high-skilled workers.

To secure a waiver, one is thrust into a byzantine world of bureaucratic complexity and obstinacy, and is sucked into wrangling over the extent of a loved one’s disability.

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