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ZELENSKY LOWERS UKRAINE’S DRAFT AGE, RISKING POLITICAL BACKLASH

The idea of requiring more men to join the fight against Russia’s invasion has
become toxic, but Russia is not relenting in its assault.

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Ukrainian soldiers training in the country’s Donetsk region on
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By Andrew E. Kramer

Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine

April 3, 2024
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed into law three measures aimed
at replenishing the ranks of his country’s exhausted and battered army,
including the politically poisonous step of lowering the age when men become
eligible for mobilization, and eliminating some medical exemptions.

Parliament passed the legislation lowering the draft eligibility age to 25, from
27, last May, but Mr. Zelensky had delayed signing it in hopes that it would not
be needed. He relented on Tuesday and signed the measure, along with laws
eliminating a category of medical exemption known as “partially eligible” and
creating an electronic database of men in Ukraine, starting at age 17, to crack
down on draft dodgers.

“It is a very unpopular decision, and that is why Zelensky held it without
signing,” said Volodymyr Ariev, a lawmaker in Parliament who is in the
opposition European Solidarity party. “Now he has no choice.”

Russia’s forces have been on the offensive along the front line, and Ukrainian
generals have warned of a broader attack in the spring or summer, even as
Ukraine’s army runs low on ammunition and many soldiers have been on continual
combat duty for two years.



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Ukraine’s army of about one million soldiers is fighting the largest war in
Europe since World War II, waged in muddy trenches or the ruins of cities in
urban combat. Casualty rates are high. Most men who wanted to volunteer for the
military have already done so, and small anti-draft protests had broken out
before the new laws were passed.


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Members of the Da Vinci Wolves Battalion, a part of Ukraine’s armed forces, at a
recruiting center in Kyiv in February.Credit...Brendan Hoffman for The New York
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Andrew E. Kramer is the Kyiv bureau chief for The Times, who has been covering
the war in Ukraine since 2014. More about Andrew E. Kramer

A version of this article appears in print on April 4, 2024, Section A, Page 1
of the New York edition with the headline: Despite Risks, Zelensky Sets New
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