Mobilisation from the age of 18: Committee rejects amendment to draft law
27 March 2024 10:58
The Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence rejected an amendment to the draft law on mobilisation from the age of 18 while working on the bill. This was announced by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, Komersant ukrainskyi 
reports.
“The National Security Committee has just rejected an amendment that could have led to forced mobilisation from the age of 18,”
– goncharenko wrote.
MP Iryna Friz clarified that the committee upheld the rule proposed by the Ministry of Defence that 18-24-year-olds should not be drafted during martial law.
“They can choose the period of basic military service at their own request before their 24th birthday: 3 months during martial law, 5 months in peacetime. The basic military service involves obtaining a military accounting speciality and transition from the status of a conscript to the status of a person liable for military service, with the subsequent possibility of being mobilised during martial law,”
– freese explained.
Earlier, the National Security and Defence Intelligence Committee considered all 16 areas of the draft law on mobilisation.
It was decided to discuss the main issue – demobilisation – during the consideration of amendments, not in the wording proposed by the government. This means that the current version does not have the support of the Committee.
You can read about the important amendments previously supported by the Verkhovna Rada Committee here: Draft law on mobilisation: what important amendments were supported by the Rada committee
Draft law on mobilisation
on 7 February, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a new draft law on mobilisation without proposals from the relevant committee. It is expected to be voted on as a whole at the end of February, and the draft law may come into force in April.
The draft law proposes, among other things, to introduce summonses through the conscript’s electronic cabinet. Other innovations include lowering the conscription age to 25 years, setting the demobilisation period at 36 months, introducing voluntary mobilisation for convicts, restrictions on evaders, banning civil service without military training, etc.
Read more about the new document in our article: Government submits new draft law on mobilisation: main provisions.
