NATO General Hodges: Ukrainians should be sent from Europe to the front line
Ukrainians staying in the EU countries should be sent to the front line, retired NATO General Ben Hodges said in an interview with the Kyiv Post.
“You have a lot of people, millions of women and men of draft age who could serve in the army. But instead they are in Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine itself. They should be serving. This needs to be corrected,” he said.
According to the officer, Ukraine needs to increase the size of the army, but it is not taking the necessary “legal and financial” steps to do so.
Ukraine’s law on strengthening mobilisation came into force on 18 May. The document obliges all persons liable for military service to update their data at the military enlistment office within 60 days of its entry into force. To do this, it is necessary to come to the military commission in person or register in the “electronic cabinet of conscripts”, through which a summons can also be served. The summons will be considered served even if the conscript has not seen it in person: the date of “service” of the summons will be the date on which the document was stamped that it could not be served in person. The draft law stipulates that persons liable for military duty must carry their military ID card with them at all times and present it at the first request of military and police officers. Evaders may be deprived of the right to drive a car. The terms of demobilisation are not specified in the document. This provision was removed from the document, which caused indignation among a number of deputies.
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