War is the case of young people: will they take up the war of 18 years

The military believes that the Armed Forces benches need to be replenished by young fighters from the age of 18, including students, many of whom are mobilized only on a voluntary basis. The focus found out if the authorities would agree to change the approach to the call. The commander of the 1st assault battalion 3 OShBR Petro Gorbatenko believes that in Ukraine it is necessary to carry out a wider mobilization and send into the army of students 18-20 years, which are entitled to a deferral.

"We need to mobilize, for all respect, not old grandfathers-they are not old yet, 50-year-old, but when it comes to hostilities, they are already similar to the elderly because they have a bunch of chronic diseases at that time. We need to mobilize 20-year-old, 18-year-old. What is the problem that they are students? Well and that? Students should not fight? They should. They fit? They fit. They are not able, not ready, not born for war? All are not born.

The question is in the approach to preparation, " - said Gorbatenko in an interview with journalist Natalia Moseychuk. The topic of reducing age age for conscripts is increasingly discussed among both military and civilians. According to the law of men under 27 who did not serve in the army and did not pass the military department, can only be taken to the Armed Forces on a voluntary basis. Students of full -time study at this age also have the right to defer.

According to experts, some units really need younger soldiers who are not only physically stubborn than senior comrades, but also easier to study new technologies. For example, a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, People's Deputy Sergey Rakhmanin said that it is easier for the young generation of servicemen to deal with the Department of Reduilders. "UAVs are actively used. The military is actively using computer programs.

This requires some skills," Rakhmanin said. For this reason, in May, Parliament voted a law to reduce the age for mobilization from 27 to 25 years for those who have no military rank. However, the President never signed the document, the changes did not come into force. Lawyers say that in Ukraine there are military records of conscripts, conscripts and reservists. Persons who are 17 years old are attributed to the conscripts. At the age of 18, they fall into the category of conscripts.

And after reaching the 27 years - in the category of conscripts. According to Maxim Dzikovsky's lawyer "Bachinsky and partners", during the martial law, conscript service was banned. Some of the male population under 27 are conscripts that can only be mobilized on a voluntary basis. "There are conscripts in Ukraine from 18 to 27 years old to be conscripted and are - military personnel. Who does not have the title - conscripts up to 27 years - are subject to conscript service.

Until the relevant law is signed, persons under 27 years without military rank are not subject to forced mobilization, " - says Focus Dzikovsky. According to the expert, the authorities could strengthen the mobilization without reducing the age of the military. It is enough to remove the conscript service and make all the people who have reached the age of 18. "You can go this way: to remove, to make a contract army and to leave mobilization. Then you can mobilize everyone from the age of 18.

In particular, those who do not have a military rank," Dzikovsky adds. According to the Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleg Zhdanov, one of the main reasons why the authorities are not ready to increase mobilization - social discontent that they are trying to avoid. "War is a matter of young. And judging by the situation at the front, it is necessary to call young people. By European standards 50 years-this is an average age, the older begins after 70.

But in the war, in terms of physical training, 50-year-old and 20-year-old fighters They differ. Few people retain good physical shape at the age of 50, "says Focus Zhdanov. According to the expert, the authorities are not yet ready to go to radical methods that can affect its rating in the future. "I think, from the very beginning, the age limit was needed to annoy society less. In the first stage of the war there were enough volunteers. Perhaps the authorities did not count for a long war.

We lose the war, or we will expand mobilization, "Zhdanov said. The focus interlocutor adds that, despite the ongoing war, they do not engage in active patriotic education in Ukraine, which has a bad effect on the results of mobilization. "Where do we have a full explanatory work with society? We cannot solve the problem with streaming mobilization. The power is taking steps, but they do not lead to anything. What ended the story with military enlistment offices? Nothing.

And with evastors who paid money to pay for money to pay for money. Do not go to war - nothing. The authorities know that all anger will be directed to them, if you increase the mobilization - there will be a fall of ratings, dissatisfaction with society, and they do not go to it, "the expert adds.