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Aretha
Visegrad 24 skriver på twitter att Ukraina lagstiftar för att mobilisera en halv miljon man.
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konstapel
Nej, det stämmer inte alls, sluta ljug vatnik.
Ljuger BBC, AP och Guardian också? Lagen röstades igenom i det ukrainska parlamentet igår, efter en hel del internt motstånd på grund av de tuffa villkor den sätter upp gentempt de mobiliserade - det är i sig ett kvitto på hur desperat behvet av mera trupper har blivit för Ukraina.
En omstridd punkt är t ex att det inte längre finns med någon garanti om att bli demobiliserad och slippa vara ute vid fronten längre efter tre års (!) tjänstgöring. Detta efter direkta krav från arméledningen.
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Ukraine's parliament has passed legislation to help mobilise troops to fight invading Russian forces.
The measure - adopted after months of wrangling - is aimed at boosting numbers in the military, which is under severe pressure as Russia continues its advances in the east.
But a clause aimed at demobilising soldiers after three years was dropped at the army's request.
The president still has to sign the bill into law.
Earlier this month, Volodymyr Zelensky approved other measures, including lowering the age of mobilisation by two years, to 25.
The new legislation passed on Thursday tightens registration processes and strengthens penalties for draft dodgers.
MP Oleksandr Fedienko said, quoted by Reuters, that the bill would send a "message to our partners that we are ready to retake our territory and we need weapons".
Ukraine's military has been under severe pressure of late, in part due to Russia's greater manpower.
A senior general told MPs before the passing of the bill that Ukrainian forces were outnumbered by Russia by between seven and 10 to one.
"We are maintaining our defences with our last strength," joint forces commander Gen Yuriy Sodol said, quoted by Reuters.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68788148
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Ukrainian lawmakers have sparked anger by scrapping a clause in a draft law that would have given soldiers who have spent long periods fighting on the frontlines a chance to return home.
With Ukraine’s army outnumbered by Russia on the battlefield, “the offensive continues along the entire frontline. And currently it is impossible to weaken the defence forces”, Dmytro Lazutkin, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s defence ministry, said Wednesday on state TV.
“We cannot make hasty decisions now,” he added, explaining the military’s opposition to the provision.
Military leaders have put pressure on politicians to ditch a draft amendment that would have given soldiers serving for more than 36 months the possibility to be discharged.
The draft law passed its first reading in parliament in February. That draft included the demobilisation plans, after debating its recruitment policy for more than a year. But that clause was removed ahead of its second reading on Wednesday, after an appeal from the chief of the army and defence minister, said Iryna Friz, a member of the parliamentary defence committee, in a Facebook post.
The reversal immediately spread anger across Ukraine, a country exhausted by years of war, and has risked sapping morale in the stretched armed forces.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/11/ukraine-demobilisation-plan-long-serving-soldiers-military-war-russia
Siffran "upp till 500.000 nya soldater" verkar gå tillbaka på uttalanden av Zelensky själv och general Syrsjy tidigare i vintras om vad som skulle komma att behövas.