
(Emile Ducke | The New York Times) Anastasia Blyshchyk, a former television journalist who joined the military after her boyfriend was killed in combat, in Izium, Ukraine on Nov. 4, 2022. There are long waiting lists for volunteers eager to serve in the Ukrainian military, and people pull strings to get called up sooner — a contrast to the hundreds of thousands of Russian men fleeing their country to avoid the draft.