Reservations and recruitment are limited. What changes await Ukrainians
Military expert Oleg Zhdanov predicts that due to the introduction of such reforms, the list of specialties subject to reservation may be changed. The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine presented the concept of personnel policy reform regarding the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine until 2028. The head of the permanent delegation of Ukraine to the PA NATO, Yehor Chernev, explained that within five years the Ministry of Defense plans to move from conscription to serve in the army to recruiting. In addition, the agency plans to abandon fixed-term service in favor of contract service.
Military expert Oleg Zhdanov predicts that due to the introduction of such reforms, the list of specialties subject to reservation may be changed.
” We have many officials and all of them automatically received it in their places. And only those who voluntarily joined the military commissariat joined the ranks of the Armed Forces. The rest continue to work in their regular places. It is necessary to adjust this legislatively in order for the ministry and department to optimize the organizational staff structure. This optimization can give a certain number of people from whom armor will be removed and who can be mobilized,” said Zhdanov in a comment on the TSN.ua website.
According to him, it is currently not known for sure how many conscripts there are in Ukraine. In order for the command of the Armed Forces to understand what mobilization resources are available in the country, there must be electronic accounting.
At the same time, Zhdanov does not rule out that the criteria for those who can be exempted from the draft may change again and mobilize those with limited eligibility. He noted that it is about changing the approach to issuing certificates of unfitness or limited fitness for service in the army by military medical commissions. After all, according to Zhdanov, hundreds of thousands of people received such certificates, and there is no certainty that all of them meet the criteria.
” Most likely, the criteria of unfit and limited fit will be revised. The latter can be mobilized ,” he said.
According to Zhdanov, the military commissars are not yet in a hurry to issue complete lists of conscripts on their records. After all, after that, they will lose the possibility of a corruption component.