Why didn't you include 2024?2024edit
On February 6, 2024 the Verkhovna Rada adopted laws approving presidential decrees on the extension of martial law and general mobilization in Ukraine for another 3 months. Lasting from February 14 until May 13, 2024.[38][39]
On February 23, 2024 parliament of Ukraine passed a demobilization bill introduced by Zelenskiy. The bill stipulates that conscripts who have been mobilized since 2022 should be pulled in reserve for at least 12 months within the terms determined by the decree of the president of Ukraine.[40]
In late December 2023, the lack of recruits to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and at the urging of the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhnyi, a new draft bill was proposed in the parliament. The bill would, among other things, lower the conscription age from 27 to 25, set a limit to discharge conscripts after 36 months of active duty during martial law, give military recruiters and the state of Ukraine more legal pathways to restrict and punish draft evaders in Ukraine and abroad, and enable them to hand out call-up papers digitally.[41] After initial hearing and a wave of criticism of it being unconstitutional the proposal was amended in mid-January 2024 and passed at the first hearing in the Verkhovna Rada. The final bill is expected to be adopted in March 2024 and includes more than 3000 amendments. The new draft bill is expected to fill the gap of the 500 000 new conscripts Ukraine needs to sustain the war.[42][43]
