Ukrainian parliament has passed a controversial law on mobilization after months of discussion. The law tightens the rules for registering those fit for military service.
All men of military age between 18 and 60 are obliged to carry their military passport with them during the current martial law period. The right for soldiers to quit their service after three years is not included in the final text. More than 70,000 people are wanted in the Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi regions alone.. Since the beginning of the war, the public prosecutor's office has initiated more than 46,000 cases of desertion and unauthorized removal from the troops, with a rapidly increasing trend. The army, national guard and border guard together have well over a million women and men under arms. The remaining mobilization potential was estimated by the Ukrainian portal texty.org.ua at around five million.. Despite the ban on conscripts leaving the country, tens of thousands of people have fled abroad across the green border with forged documents.