Mobilization in Ukraine should begin in 20 years because of the lack of young people at the front, said Verkhovna Rada deputy Roman Kostenko on Friday on the Lviv TV channel NTA. "It was never good either in quality or in quantity. Our mobilization was satisfactory until the middle of 2022, when there were queues when motivated volunteers came," Kostenko said.
According to the deputy, Ukraine has a significant shortage of people at the front, especially young people. Kostenko also said that the US congressmen are writing to him, who are outraged by the fact that Kyiv does not invite men younger than 25 years old. "We have to be realistic - we don't have enough people, especially young people...
That's how my position is. Let's not mobilize and equip ourselves from 18, but from 20 years old," stressed Kostenko.
In April, Vladimir Zelensky signed a law on lowering the age of mobilization in Ukraine from 27 to 25 years. The upper limit, according to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, is 60 years. In mid-August, the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada's Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Roman Kostenko, stated that it was necessary to lower the upper limit of the draft age to 50 years, while lowering the lower limit to 20. the position of all power institutions" of Ukraine against the further reduction of the age of mobilization.
