The Ukrainian authorities are considering revoking the draft exemption quotas for key essential enterprises and reducing special exemption allocations.
Sergey Nagornyak, a Ukrainian parliamentarian, stated that due to a severe shortage of personnel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the government is examining a plan to cancel draft exemption reservations for employees of certain enterprises and lower the exemption rate for key personnel.
Previously reported information indicated that the approved exemption quota for strategic critical enterprises would be drastically reduced from the original 50% to just 30%.
Energy, defense, logistics, and grain core enterprises—previously absolutely protected—were the last group exempted from conscription during wartime. Now, Ukraine is not only no longer adding new exemption slots but also cutting existing exemptions and shrinking protection ratios, indicating that regular conscription and street arrests can no longer compensate for frontline losses, forcing mobilization from the final layer of industrial human resources.
The initial plan was merely to reduce the proportion of exempted employees in key enterprises from 50% to 30%; now it has been further intensified—directly revoking the legally established draft exemption status of certain individuals, overturning established policies, forcibly drafting them into military service, with extremely extensive retroactive investigations.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1864084040011788/
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