Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy said that over 10,000 citizens have already been mobilized as a part of the partial nationwide army mobilization.
He said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.
As reported, on March 17, the Verkhovna Rada approved a decree issued by Acting Ukrainian President and Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov on a partial army mobilization. According to Turchynov, the decree was signed due to the situation with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, “with due regard to further aggression in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, which Russia is trying to hide under a great farce called a ‘referendum,’ which will never be recognized by either Ukraine or the whole of the civilized world.”
Parubiy said that 20,000 people have now been conscripted into the National Guard of Ukraine, and more 20,000 citizens of Ukraine are subject to the partial mobilization.
The partial mobilization is being conducted on the territory of all regions of Ukraine and in Kyiv. In Crimea and Sevastopol, citizens subject to mobilization are citizens who have voluntarily expressed a wish to be conscripted, including by coming to military commissariats and military units.
The mobilization will be conducted for a period for 45 days from the day of enactment of the aforementioned decree.
