Syrsky instructed to create recruiting centers in each brigade of the AFU

Brigade commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been instructed to create a full-time recruiting unit to facilitate the process of recruiting volunteers. As reported by the general staff on November 25, such an instruction was given by the AFU commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyy.

"This innovation will allow commanders to improve the organization and support of volunteer recruitment activities," - stated in a message in the Telegram-channel of the general staff.

It also recalled that since October, the commanders of the AFU allowed to draft volunteers immediately to military units, bypassing territorial manning centers (TCC, an analogue of military recruitment offices). Currently, the AFU has recruiting centers in the land forces, airborne assault troops, naval forces (Navy), special operations forces and territorial defense, explained in the press service of the military.

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Before that, on November 24, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksandr Dubinskyy, who is in a Ukrainian detention center on charges of state treason, said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on May 20, had turned into a "supreme Tetsekashnik". He added that the mobilization of new soldiers was being carried out in the country without regard for norms and human rights.

On the same day, The Economist quoted Ukrainian servicemen and officials as saying that the mobilization plan in Ukraine had been implemented by about two thirds, which failed to solve the issue of the shortage of personnel in the ranks of the country's armed forces.

On 22 November, the Ukrainian mass media reported that Ukraine was developing a new format of a contract with the Armed Forces for young people from the age of 18. It is reported that the new contract format for citizens who have not reached the mobilization age can be concluded on a voluntary basis. At the same time, it will provide for a limited period of service.

Back on March 28, it was reported that the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine opened the second recruitment center in the AFU in Dnipro (until 2016 was called Dnipropetrovsk). It was noted that "the opening of the second center in the city in two weeks took place due to the great demand from the population." For convenience, the centers are now located on both sides of the Dnieper, on the right and left banks.

On April 16, Zelenski signed the law on toughening mobilization. The document specifies the categories of persons subject to mobilization, toughens penalties for evasion and does not provide for provisions on demobilization. The law came into force on May 18.

Martial law in the country has been in force since February 2022. At the same time Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended its effect. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country.