Following the continuation of the war between Moscow and Kiev, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has proposed to the government to reduce the age of people who want to join the ranks of the country's armed forces from 27 years to 25 years.
Publish dateTuesday 26 December 2023 - 13:53
Story Code : 282927
Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - International Service: According to "Al Jazeera" report, after the Ukrainian army announced that it needs 500,000 more soldiers in its 22-month war against Russia, Ukraine proposed to reduce the age of people who can The armed forces of this country have offered to be recruited from 27 years to 25 years.
The proposal to lower the age was in the text of the draft law that was published on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday. The text of the draft provides details on which Ukrainian citizens are eligible for military service registration, and in the section on the legal age for military service, 25 years old instead of 27 years old.
"Rostam Umerov", the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, has stated that the only change in the key provisions of this draft law for the recruitment of new troops is in the same field of lowering the age of military service in this country. The provisions of this law have been signed by the Minister of Defense of this country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier this month that the country's army has proposed recruiting 450,000 to 500,000 more Ukrainian soldiers for the war against Russia. In the meantime, the issue of changing the military service age was mentioned as a "very sensitive" issue between the army and the government, which they discussed a lot before presenting the plan to the parliament of this country.
Zelensky has not yet publicly supported the implementation of the plan to lower the military service age, but has called for an increase in the army to continue the war with Russia. According to the estimates of the United States, hundreds of thousands of military forces of the two countries have been killed and wounded in the war between Russia and Ukraine. However, neither Ukraine nor Russia provide statistics on the number of deaths of their military forces during the war.
The proposal of the mentioned bill is supposed to be discussed in the Ukrainian parliament soon.
The number of Ukrainian soldiers is not known, but in the past it was said that this country has at least one million armed forces.
American officials have estimated that since the beginning of Russia's attack on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of troops from these two countries have been killed. Moscow and Kiev have refused to publish their official death toll.
The proposal to lower the age was in the text of the draft law that was published on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament yesterday. The text of the draft provides details on which Ukrainian citizens are eligible for military service registration, and in the section on the legal age for military service, 25 years old instead of 27 years old.
"Rostam Umerov", the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, has stated that the only change in the key provisions of this draft law for the recruitment of new troops is in the same field of lowering the age of military service in this country. The provisions of this law have been signed by the Minister of Defense of this country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier this month that the country's army has proposed recruiting 450,000 to 500,000 more Ukrainian soldiers for the war against Russia. In the meantime, the issue of changing the military service age was mentioned as a "very sensitive" issue between the army and the government, which they discussed a lot before presenting the plan to the parliament of this country.
Zelensky has not yet publicly supported the implementation of the plan to lower the military service age, but has called for an increase in the army to continue the war with Russia. According to the estimates of the United States, hundreds of thousands of military forces of the two countries have been killed and wounded in the war between Russia and Ukraine. However, neither Ukraine nor Russia provide statistics on the number of deaths of their military forces during the war.
The proposal of the mentioned bill is supposed to be discussed in the Ukrainian parliament soon.
The number of Ukrainian soldiers is not known, but in the past it was said that this country has at least one million armed forces.
American officials have estimated that since the beginning of Russia's attack on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of troops from these two countries have been killed. Moscow and Kiev have refused to publish their official death toll.
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