The Verkhovna Rada registered a draft law on lowering the maximum age of conscripts. It is planned to reduce it from 27 to 25 years.
This is stated on the website of the parliament.
The initiator of the draft law was the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The explanatory note notes that during martial law, when there is no conscription, it makes sense to reduce the number of men subject to conscription.
"Long-term stay of citizens on the military register of conscripts during martial law is considered inappropriate, taking into account the fact that a significant number of citizens fit for military service, who do not have the status of conscripts, cannot be involved in military service by conscription during mobilization, for a special period ", the document says.
- The day before, the Ministry of Defense announced that in Ukraine they want to reduce the age limit for military registration to 25 years. The department explained that there is no need to register conscripts under the age of 27 during martial law. However, conscripts have to come to military commissariats every year, in particular for a medical examination, which creates additional queues and burdens on doctors.
- In addition, conscripts are currently not conscripted — therefore, not subject to mobilization. If the age limit is reduced, it will allow 25- and 26-year-old men to be mobilized.