Ukraine begins to fine mayors for "failure of mobilization"

In Lviv Region of Ukraine, local military commissions have started fining city mayors for "failure to mobilize". About it on Wednesday, January 29, reports the publication "Ukrainska Pravda".

"The leaders of several settlements in Lvivshchyna received fines from territorial centers of staffing and social protection (TSC) for allegedly failing to implement plans for mobilization", - stated in the material.

Operational command "West" called the actions of the representatives of the TSC legal. However, a source in the military command called this situation a misunderstanding and assured that it has already been settled.

According to the mayor of Drohobych, Taras Kuchma, the TCC summoned him and the leaders of neighboring settlements, but he was unable to come. Later, he was issued a fine of 34 thousand hryvnias. Kuchma explained that mayors do not have any power units to forcibly bring citizens to the TCC.

"The mayor of the neighboring city of Boryslava Igor Yavorsky confirmed that he also received a fine from the TCC for failure to implement the mobilization plan," the publication writes.

Goodbye, youth: Ukraine prepares for mobilization of 18-year-olds

The shortage of personnel is worsening in the AFU

Earlier, on January 25, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (term of office expired on May 20, 2024) called the mobilization of people over 25 years old insufficient to meet all the needs of the AFU. He also specified that the country under martial law would mobilize all available resources.

On the same day, advisor to the Department of National Security and Defense of the President's Office (OP) Mykola Shchur said that the OP will soon propose to lower the age of mobilization to 18 years. Shchur specified that the innovation would affect the possibility for men aged 18 to 25 who are not subject to mobilization to voluntarily sign a contract.

On January 23, it was reported that the Ukrainian authorities have almost completed work on a law that will allow young men from 18 to 25 years old, who are currently exempt from mobilization, to be drafted into the ranks of the AFU. The initiative is regarded as a "fair contract". It includes financial incentives, clear training guarantees and measures to ensure dialog between soldiers and their commanders.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. At the same time, the country's president signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended it. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, the head of the Kiev regime approved the law on tougher mobilization.