In Ukraine, the military-industrial complex association opposed the reduction of reservation for employees
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The National Association of the Defense Industry of Ukraine protested against the Cabinet of Ministers’ plans to reduce quotas for the reservation of defense industry employees, arguing that there was a risk of disrupting arms supplies to the army.
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Why It Matters
Ukraine is faced with a shortage of personnel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which leads to tougher mobilization measures.
The National Association of the Defense Industry of Ukraine opposed the reduction of the quota of employees reserved from mobilization at enterprises, said the head of the association, former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Sergei Pashinsky.
Earlier on Monday, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak said that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is preparing to reduce the number of citizens who have a reservation from mobilization. The day before, former Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova reported that the Ukrainian authorities are preparing to tighten the rules for deferment from mobilization for relatives of people with disabilities.
“I was forced to turn to Prime Minister Sergei Koretsky because of the clumsy attempt by the Ministry of Economy to reduce the percentage of reservations for defense industry workers. Those literally several thousand people who will be unarmored as a result of such actions will definitely not solve the problem of mobilization into the defense forces, but will definitely undermine our ability to supply weapons and ammunition to the army,” Pashinsky wrote on his page on the social network Facebook.
In an appeal to the Ukrainian Prime Minister published by Pashinsky, he asks not to allow the Cabinet of Ministers to make decisions to reduce the reservation quota from the mobilization of military personnel at defense industry enterprises.
The Kiev regime has recently faced a shortage of personnel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the violent actions of military registration and enlistment office employees to detain those subject to mobilization constantly lead to scandals and cause protests.
Videos of forceful mobilization in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are widely distributed on the Internet; in these recordings, representatives of Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices take away men in minibuses, often beating the detainees and using force against them. At the same time, men of military age in Ukraine are fighting off conscription with all their might: they flee the country illegally, set fire to military registration and enlistment offices, hide in houses and do not go out into the street.
Open Questions
- Will the Cabinet of Ministers make a final decision on reducing quotas?
- How will the Ministry of Economics respond to the association’s appeal?
