Military personnel fighting since 2022 will start to be withdrawn from the frontline: Ministry of Defense named the condition.
18.04.2025
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Journalist
Shostal Oleksandr
18.04.2025
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- Ukrainian military personnel participating in the battles against Russia since 2022 will gradually be withdrawn from the frontline.
- The development of a mechanism for training and replacing troops currently on the front line is nearing completion.
- The replacement of military personnel will begin with those who have served since 2022, said Deputy Minister of Defense Ivan Havryliuk.
- The withdrawal of soldiers will only take place when there is a sufficient human resource available for training and replacing the troops.
- The Deputy Minister of Defense noted that busification is a 'shameful phenomenon,' and all efforts are directed at preventing this phenomenon.
- Work is being done on the mechanism to cover the personnel shortages at the front positions.
- The possibility of creating units from military personnel aged 18 to 24 who have come to serve under contract is being considered.
- Recruitment centers have also been opened, and work is underway to attract foreigners to perform tasks at the frontline positions.
- In Ukraine, there are already 50 recruitment centers for accepting citizens of Ukraine on a voluntary basis.
- Work in this direction continues.
- Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers dismissed Ivan Havryliuk from the position of First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine.
- In April this year, about 350,000 military personnel could have been demobilized.
- The Ministry of Defense planned to complete work on the bill for the release of military personnel by December 18, 2024.
- Ukraine's mobilization reserve consists of 3.7 million people, while the total number of men aged 25 to 60 is 11.1 million.
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