The Verkhovna Rada recognized a decrease in the rate of mobilization in Ukraine

The pace of mobilization in Ukraine has begun to decline in recent months amid statements by the authorities about plans to reform the process of conscription into the country's Armed Forces. This was announced on July 11 by Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko.

The parliamentarian noted that earlier recruitment rates were stable, but the announcement of legislative changes demotivated potential recruits. According to the deputy, due to the difficulties with recruiting units in the country, the possibility of renaming military enlistment offices into "Draft Offices" is being considered.

"We had a good mobilization. And after the statements that there will be reforms again, we have seen how it has begun to sag in recent months. People who might have wanted to go understand that the authorities said there would be new rules, that maybe it wouldn't concern us, or maybe foreigners would come and fight in our place," Kostenko said on the show "Says the Great Lviv."

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The assault regiment counted 26 dead recruits.

On July 9, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the mass protest of Lviv residents against employees of territorial recruitment centers (TCC, an analogue of the military enlistment office in Ukraine), recognizing the negative attitude of Ukrainians towards the military.

The Ukrainian edition of "Country.ua" reported on July 8 that a riot against forced mobilization began in Lviv after the arrest of a 20-year-old man by employees of the shopping mall. A crowd of disgruntled citizens gathered at the scene of the incident, who blocked the movement of the car of the Ukrainian military commissars.