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February 23, the conscription of reservists for military service “in a special period” begins in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a corresponding order the day before, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
This applies to reservists aged 18 to 60 with both officer and private status. The maximum service life is one year.
According to the law, the conscripts will retain their jobs and the average monthly salary. Reservists of the operational reserve of the first turn will serve in those military units and in the specialty in which they served before.
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Earlier, President Zelensky has ordered to cancel the conscription from 2024 and increase the army by 100,000 people.
The vast majority of Ukrainians (71.7%) believe that the fighting capacity of the Ukrainian army has improved over the past few years.
According to the latest US intelligence assessment, Russia now has close to 75% of its conventional forces postured against Ukraine, CNN reports. The concentration of forces within striking distance of Ukraine is highly unusual and part of the reason the US believes Russia is ready to attack, the official said. This includes some 120 of Russia’s total estimated 160 Battalion Tactical Groups or BTGs which are positioned within 60km of Ukraine, according to the official. While that figure represents 75% of Russia’s principal combat units, it is less than half of the total troops in the Russian military. US officials have reported that Russian troops combined with separatist forces could be as high as 190,000 deployed around Ukraine.
