Oh yeah, totally. I will never forget my country's leadership's undying loyalty for both Ukraine and Israel, and most likely the eventual unraveling of the Ukraine myth will result in more disillusioned people among the local populace. Which, in turn, will (hopefully at least) eventually lead to more broad support for a socialist revolution. But, given the reaction this piece of news has brought from lemmy liberals, all this will take some more time.

I think I saw one link to Ukrainian version of BBC? I'm not sure how far this has reached.

Nazis doing nazi shit ig. A representative of Ukraine's armed forces mentioned how there are multiple such places across Ukraine. Some locals claimed that they were being extorted money to visit their captive relatives / in order to get them freed. Whatever the reasons, it's fucking heinous shit.

Punishment against defectors and people resisting conscription

Yes because they kidnap them, torture them, and then send them to the front lines with a couple weeks of training. That's assuming they don't die from the torture or from trying to escape. There are "training" camps in Ukraine that are surrounded by mines to keep the press ganged people inside.