The Ministry of Economy announced the number of people reserved from mobilization
31 October 2024 23:39
Currently, 906 thousand Ukrainians have reservations for mobilization. This was stated by the Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko in an interview with Forbes Ukraine , "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
Svyrydenko denied the information about the alleged 1.5 million Ukrainians who have been booked for mobilization, as previously reported by the media. She explained that when booking through Diia was introduced, the booking statistics increased to 1.049 million people, but this was due to double counting-some companies simultaneously submitted documents in paper and electronic form.
According to her, during the entire period of the full-scale war, the number of people subject to mobilization has never exceeded 950 thousand people.
At the same time, Svyrydenko emphasized that it is important to add transparency and systematize the process, and therefore the government is considering changing the booking procedures, for example, to give priority to the salary criterion.
According to her, there are companies that, when applying for recognition as critical enterprises, indicated the average salary in the region and then switched to the minimum salary. She considers such actions to be “manipulations.”
“This is a signal that we should prioritize the criteria and focus civil-military administrations and ministries to pay more attention to wages. And to ensure that those who receive reservations pay all their salaries officially,” the minister emphasized.
Svyrydenko said she would propose that civil-military administrations coordinate their criteria with the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Defense. Some military-civilian administrations have such a wide variety of criteria that they can designate enterprises that are not critical if they wish, she explained.
At the same time, Svyrydenko emphasized that the CMAs are needed in this process because they see which enterprises are actually working on the ground, not on paper, what salaries they pay, and what their contribution to the regional economy is.
As a reminder, the possibility of reserving employees liable for military service from mobilization was suspended on the Diia portal until November 15. As reported on the Diia website, this service is closed due to an audit of the reserved persons liable for military service until November 15, 2024.
