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Ukrainian parliament is not considering lowering mobilization age — MP Venislavskyi

8 December, 2024 Sunday
16:56

A member of the Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on National Security, Fedir Venislavskyi, said that the parliament is not currently considering legislative initiatives to lower the mobilization age or the mandatory mobilization of women

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This was reported by RBC-Ukraine.

"No legislative initiatives to reduce the mobilization age from 25 to 18 or to 20 years are being considered either in the parliament as a whole or in the relevant committee of the Verkhovna Rada on national security, defense and intelligence in particular," Venislavskyi said.

The MP also noted that no proposals to amend Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine "On Mobilization Preparation and Mobilization," which stipulates that citizens under 25 are not subject to conscription, have been submitted to the committee for consideration.

Venislavskyi stressed that there is also no discussion of the mandatory mobilization of women who are liable for military service or will become so after completing basic military training. Under current legislation, women can be called up for military service only upon their voluntary consent during mobilization.

"All other statements, including those concerning the forced mobilization of 18-24-year-olds after they have completed basic military service, are manipulations and speculations. Including by some of our colleagues," he concluded.

  • On November 28, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi said that the United States had indeed raised the issue of lowering the mobilization age in Ukraine to 18, but Kyiv was convinced that military assistance was more important.
  • On December 1, Oleh Dombrovskyi, spokesman forUkraine's West Operational Command, said that there is currently no need to mobilize citizens aged 18 to 25. The mobilization age should not depend on external influence. It is the right of each country to determine the age at which citizens should be mobilized.
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