Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has not signed the law reducing military service from 27 to 25 years since June, despite pressure from the military.
At the end of May, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved a lowering of the age for military service from 27 to 25 years. The bill was drawn up at the initiative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. The document was sent to Zelensky for signature on June 5 and has been on his desk for almost six months.
Zelensky postpones the reduction of conscription. The lack of decisiveness worries the army
According to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the matter, Zelenskiy does not want to sign the bill because he is demanding from the army leadership a clearer plan of what the army wants to achieve through conscription, how recruits will be distributed and how rotations for the armies must be organized. those who have already spent 21 months at the front.
According to Bloomberg, the solutions adopted by the Ukrainian parliament are intended to give recruitment officials access to an additional 140,000 officials. conscripts, and the delay in signing the bill “concerns the military.”
According to Ukrainian political scientist Volodymyr Fesenko, the Office of the President of Ukraine fears that the entry into force of this law “could lead to an escalation of tensions” and strengthen the feeling of making “peace at any price”. – This trend, although not yet very popular, is already visible and can become even stronger – said Fesenko.
Bloomberg also cites the opinion of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Valery Zaluzhny, that current conscription rules contain loopholes that allow citizens to avoid the obligation of military service.
In early November, Załużny gave a famous interview to the magazine “The Economist”. He stated that the situation at the front had reached a dead end. Zelensky publicly rejected the position of commander of the Ukrainian army, stating that he did not consider the situation as a stalemate.
OSW: The Ukrainian army has a serious problem. Unpopular decisions are needed
The Center for Oriental Studies wrote in an analysis published earlier this month that the issue of soldier fatigue and the need to expand mobilization to younger age groups is increasingly being discussed in Ukraine.
“This problem is serious and will require unpopular decisions from Ukraine’s military and political leadership in the coming months, but so far it has not become an open social crisis,” Polish experts say.
In their opinion, for the time being, families of Ukrainian soldiers rarely resort to public protests, and they are not very popular. “So far, there has been no escalation of violence in Ukraine in this regard, comparable to the anti-mobilization protests in the North Caucasus in September 2022.” – it was in the report.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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