These are young involuntary heroes.

Who are these young and faceless individuals, morned by their spouses and mothers, that are being robbed of their future as their fates are being sealed and turned into statistics in one of the endless and pointless geopolitical games that have been fought throughout history and that are still being played for wealth and power by their state and our world leaders?

It is a conundrum to me how sovereign and modern nation-states that are governed by the rule of law are still capable of sanctioning the murder of citizens that belong to a foreign state. Unless we are talking about soldiers that have volunteered or mercenaries that are having it on each other, I don't think it can be justified by the rule of law without it stripping a person who is being drafted of all their human rights and value.

Many are young lads who may have just finished school and who may not even have had the money or time to either get a driver's license or move away from home before the rule of law they happened to be born into summoned them to fight to the death against their brothers from neighboring countries who too have been forced into the field of death for the same reason.

These are Ukraine's soldiers, and they are now being honored by both sides.

My point is that it doesn't matter where you stand on the Ukraine-Russia crisis, and no matter if you think that there are no justifiable reasons for a Russian intervation or not, or if you are of the opinion that Ukraine is being run by a puppet regime that has been committing genocide on its own population, a majority of these young and drafted soldiers on both sides could have might as well have been brothers.

These are young involuntary heroes.