The new legislation aims to identify those who evade mobilization.

The Kárpáti Igaz Szó published a longer compilation about how the lives of the people of Subcarpathia are being made more difficult, because the new mobilization law will enter into force on May 18. The legislation adopted by the Ukrainian parliament on April 11 - which has since been signed by the Speaker of the House and President Volodymyr Zelenskyi - caused a great response among citizens and at the political level as well.

The legislation primarily aims to update military records and identify those who evade mobilization.

In the past week, the fact that the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a decree prohibiting men between the ages of 18 and 60 from renewing their official documents at Ukraine's foreign embassies raised a lot of dust.

The suspension of consular services for Ukrainian citizens abroad took effect on April 23 and will continue until the mobilization law comes into force. The foreign branches do not accept applications from persons of military age, nor do they issue previously requested documents. The Consulate of Ukraine in Poland does not provide service to men of military age until it receives instructions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to the rationale of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the reason behind the move is that Ukrainian citizens cannot evade their obligation to arrange military registration with the regional recruitment centers and to submit the available military registration documents. However, not all consular services will be restricted. Men can still be issued identity cards to return to Ukraine.

Making up for the losses suffered at the front is becoming more and more difficult, the recruitment of new recruits is facing more and more obstacles, KISz wrote. The reason for this is that the volunteers ran out (at the beginning of the war, so many applied that many had to be rejected)

those who can, run away, those who can't, hide.

Since the start of the war more than two years ago, 10,700 criminal proceedings have been initiated for avoiding conscription.

Although the legislation has not yet become law, certain sections of it have already started to be applied based on government and ministerial decrees.

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