Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed into law three measures aimed at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army, including the politically poisonous step of lowering the age when men become eligible for mobilisation, and eliminating some medical exemptions.
Ukraine’s army of about 1 million soldiers is fighting the largest war in Europe since World War II, waged in muddy trenches or the ruins of cities in urban combat. Casualty rates are high. Most men who wanted to volunteer for the military have already done so, and small anti-draft protests had broken out before the new laws were passed.
It is unclear how quickly Ukraine will draft and train the additional troops, or whether they will be ready before the expected Russian offensive. The more comprehensive mobilisation bill that has yet to pass envisions three months of training for soldiers drafted during wartime. Zelensky has said he does not intend to conscript women into the military, although women with medical educations are required to register for the draft.Ukraine’s total population of 25 and 26-year-olds was about 467,000 in 2022, the latest year when the government published population estimates, according to Natalia Tilikina, the director of Institute of Youth, a research group.
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