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As Russia’s full-scale war approaches its third year and looks ready to drag on for several more, one topic is dominating the discussion in Ukraine: mobilization. From regional capitals and small villages to the front lines of the east, from the media, the workplace, and the family, Ukraine’s acute need to mobilize hundreds of thousands more men to stay in the fight against Russia is felt everywhere. With it comes one of the most difficult internal challenges that Ukraine faces in this war: balancing the need to defend the country’s independence from an existential threat with the painful reality of having to take hundreds of thousands of civilians, taxpayers, fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, off to war.
On Jan. 11, the Verkhovna Rada may consider in the first reading an extensive government bill on mobilization, which aims to regulate issues such as conscription age, demobilization, conscription service, and more, according to an NV source.
During its meeting on Monday, 8 January, the Ukrainian Parliament's Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy recognised the government's draft law on mobilisation as containing corruption risks. Source: Anastasiia Radina, Chair of the Committee, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda Details: The official said the committee concluded that conscription was necessary in Ukraine but some draft law provisions have corruption risks.