Ukrainian President Zelensky signed a law lowering the age for mobilization

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On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi signed a law lowering the age limit for mobilization for war with Russia from 27 to 25. This was announced by the Ukrainian media with reference to the website of the Ukrainian Parliament. He recalled that the law had been waiting for the President’s signature for ten months.

According to the media, lowering the age limit will create a relatively large group of young people aged twenty-five and twenty-six who will now be able to be called up for the army. “As of April 3, it will be possible to issue summons,” the RBK-Ukraine server concluded.

After last summer’s counter-offensive, which did not lead to a major breakthrough, the Ukrainian army found itself under the pressure of repeated attacks by Russian troops in the fall, who in February succeeded in capturing the eastern Ukrainian town of Avdijivka, which, with its fortifications, represents the fulcrum of the Ukrainian lines on a front over a thousand kilometers long. The Ukrainians did not receive soldiers or ammunition.

President Zelenskyi said last December that the army leadership proposes to mobilize another 450,000 to 500,000 Ukrainians. But last month, new commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyj told Ukrinform that the army would have to mobilize fewer troops than originally expected to defend against a Russian invasion.