Frontline forces are running critically short, Ukraine's Defense Ministry is planning radical conscription reforms, with potential adjustments to conscription age
Roman Kostyenko, Secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine's Supreme Rada and a member of parliament, revealed that the Ministry of Defense is preparing to adjust conscription age and introduce several radical new conscription regulations.
Kostyenko stated that authorities have already begun discussing modifications to wartime mobilization conscription age, though he did not specify whether the conscription age would be raised or lowered. Specific details will be officially announced by the Ministry of Defense or the General Staff.
He also emphasized that no female mobilization will be implemented this year, nor will existing policies exempting parents of three or more children from conscription be changed.
Ukraine has long faced a shortage of frontline personnel and continues to optimize mobilization rules, with adjusting conscription age serving as a core contingency measure for bolstering troop numbers.
Kostyenko did not disclose the direction of the age adjustment—both possibilities remain open: lowering the minimum age to recruit younger individuals, or raising the upper limit to draft middle-aged men.
In the short term, the scope of conscription will not be expanded; women and families with multiple children will retain their exemption status, in order to avoid further intensifying domestic opposition to conscription.
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