The Cabinet of Ministers has repealed a 1994 decree on the list of specialties for which women can be registered in the military.
This was announced by the Permanent Representative of the Government to the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnychuk.
This resolution determined that women in the following specialties could be registered: medical, telephone operators, telegraphists, radio operators, radiotelephonists, radiotelegraphists, radiometrists, radio mechanics, radio operators, telegraph mechanics, phototelegraphers, photoradiotelegraphists; in the field of computer technology — technicians, craftsmen, mechanics, operators; in the field of optical and sound measuring instruments, measurement and metrology — technicians, craftsmen, meteorologists, hydrometeorologists; in the field of cartography, topogeodesy, photogrammetry and aerial photography services — photogrammetrists, photolaborators, operators, masters, engravers, topogeodesists, zincographers, theodolites: in the field of printing — engravers, zincographers, masters of printing machines, as well as film radio.
- On January 21, 2022, the Ministry of Defense prepared a new order on military registration for women. The list of professions whose representatives must be registered will be significantly reduced. The new order defines only 14 specialties and 6 professions, the receipt of which will require military registration. They will be related to 100 military accounting specialties. The previous list included 35 professions and more than 200 military accounting specialties.