Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Signing of Mobilization Law Indicates Zelensky is Desperate

"Zelensky signed new mobilization measures into law on April 2, lowering the conscription
age and authorizing the creation of an electronic database of military-age men in what is considered to be a "very unpopular" move in
Ukraine.
The new draft law changes Ukraine's conscription age from 27 to 25, abolishes the "limited fitness" classification for recruits and obligates those who had been considered limitedly fit for military service to undergo a medical examination again within nine months. Under the new law, the nation's Defense Ministry will also receive data on Ukrainians liable for military service without their consent as part of a vast electronic database.
The measures are very unpopular with Ukrainians and the timing of Zelensky's decision to sign the law is remarkable, according to Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries and the Other Ukraine movement expert.
"Zelensky had reasons to delay signing the amendments to the law on mobilization and military service, and so on, he signed several of these bills at once," Dudchak told Sputnik. "Why now? Because it’s hard to further delay it. [US] Senator Lindsey Graham visited and said that there is no time to wait and [Kiev] should send even more people to the grinder." Sputnik

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