In brief
Ukraine’s Defence Ministry is finalising a bill to toughen penalties for unauthorised absence and evading military service, the prime minister said. Separate mobilisation changes aim to enable troop rotations and replenish units.
Ukraine’s Defence Ministry is nearing completion of a bill to strengthen penalties for leaving military units without permission and evading military service, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi told parliament during government questions on November 13, Novynarnia reported.
Koretskyi outlined three areas of work: improving procedures for reserving people liable for military service from mobilisation, strengthening penalties for evasion and unauthorised absence, and developing new mobilisation rules. He said the government had already adopted a resolution intended to prevent abuses of the reservation process, with further work assigned jointly to the defence and economy ministries.
He described the planned mobilisation rules as a form of social contract. Their aims include creating conditions for rotations of personnel who have spent a long time at the front and bringing new troops into units, he said.
The bill remains in preparation, while the new mobilisation rules are being developed. Novynarnia’s report did not specify proposed penalties, a bill number, a timetable for parliamentary consideration or a rotation schedule. It also did not give the number or adoption date of the reservation resolution.
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