Members of the Verkhovna Rada have supported a new draft law on mobilization in the first reading, but before it is finally adopted, it must go through several stages, reports MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, on Telegram on Feb. 7.
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KYIV Ukraine's top general on Monday (Dec 18) issued his strongest criticism to date of a previous presidential decision to fire regional military draft office chiefs, Interfax Ukraine reported. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired all of Ukraine's regional military recruitment heads in August in a corruption crackdown. He said at the time a state investigation into centres across Ukraine.