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The Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence initiated an examination of a new bill on revamping Ukraine’s military conscription system on Jan. 4, according to MP Mariana Bezuhla on Facebook.
The Ukrainian president has called for another half a million troops this year and his government has introduced strict conscription laws in an attempt to deter draft-dodging.
Increased mobilization is an "objective component of the war," Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko wrote on Telegram on Jan, 4, citing comments made by Chief Commander of the Armed Forces Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov during the Parliamentary Committee's review of the new conscription law.