The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a long-debated law on mobilisation as the country struggles to replenish its forces more than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine is in desperate need of new recruits, with the military leadership having estimated that hundreds of thousands of men are needed to replace casualties and servicemen who have been on the front since the war began.
The law comes at a critical point in Ukraine’s defence against Russian forces, which are regaining the initiative on the battlefield with more weaponry and men than Kyiv can muster. Moscow has also intensified its aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities in a bid to overwhelm its rapidly depleting air defences.