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Skip to contentSkip to site indexSearch & Section NavigationSection Navigation SEARCH Europe SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEKLog in Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Today’s Paper SUBSCRIBE FOR $1/WEEK Russia-Ukraine War * Photos * Maps * Soldiers From Abroad * Ukraine’s Big Vulnerabilities * Dodging the Draft Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT 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. * Share full article * * * 1k * Read in app Ukrainian soldiers training in the country’s Donetsk region on Monday.Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York Times By Andrew E. Kramer Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine April 3, 2024 Leer en español Get it sent to your inbox. 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. Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT 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. Image 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 Times Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. 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 Draft Age. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Read 1016 Comments * Share full article * * * 1k * Read in app Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT COMMENTS 1016 Zelensky Lowers Ukraine’s Draft Age, Risking Political BacklashSkip to Comments The comments section is closed. To submit a letter to the editor for publication, write to letters@nytimes.com. SITE INDEX SITE INFORMATION NAVIGATION * © 2024 The New York Times Company * NYTCo * Contact Us * Accessibility * Work with us * Advertise * T Brand Studio * Your Ad Choices * Privacy Policy * Terms of Service * Terms of Sale * Site Map * Canada * International * Help * Subscriptions Enjoy unlimited access to all of The Times. See subscription options