President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said that he will submit to Verkhovna Rada a bill on launching the next wave of mobilization after the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine files a respective request.
“Liberation of the Ukrainian territory is not just the efforts of the diplomats, in addition to political-diplomatic efforts of the Ukrainian government, it also strong Armed Forces in a certain coordination with which we’ll provide firm and steady implementation of the Minsk Agreements. And if even for this purpose one needs to advance an initiative [to launch a next wave of mobilization] to the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then I’ll back [the initiative] and a respective bill will be submitted to Verkhovna Rada,” Poroshenko told the journalists in Ternopil being asked when the next wave of mobilization to be launched.
The president said that the initiative of carrying mobilization should be initiated by the leadership of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine and General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“For the time being, despite existing reducing of an amount of the shell attacks compared to those we watched in the end of November and early December, we have to keep well-armed and significant contingent of the Ukrainian troops along the contact line,” Poroshenko stressed.
As reported, on Nov. 20, 2015 head of the main personnel management department of the General Staff Ihor Voronchenko said that the seventh wave of mobilization could be launched on Q1, 2016.
“[Mobilization] will most likely [be announced] in February-March,” he said.
He added that he doesn’t know the precise number of conscripts required by the military.
The sixth wave of mobilization passed in June-August 2015.
