Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law on the last conscription and transition to the contract-based staffing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“This morning I signed the order. There will be no conscription anymore. Everything is written there about how the soldiers of the compulsory military term will be transferred to the reserve, and this year soldiers will be conscripted for the last time,” Yanukovych said during the meeting with women Heroes of Ukraine on Monday, as the president’s press service reported.
However, the Ukrainian president said that recruitment for regular military service would be retained at all of the national armed services.
Yanukovych stressed that now the armament level of the Ukrainian army, and the technologies used in its work, have achieved the level needed to attract the best specialists.
“Today we’ve got armaments, military technologies, that demand a very high professional level… The equipment is very complicated, and that’s why the army now has to be a professional one,” the president said.
According to Yanukovych, “those people, who are longing to serve, who are interested in the military profession, must serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
As reported, on October 1 Ukraine launched the last round of conscription of citizens for regular military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
