The General staff of Ukraine: the call of the draftees will begin only by decree of the President
Conscription for service in the Ukrainian army may pass after the end of the fourth wave of mobilization, but will start only by decree of the President considers that the 1st Deputy head of the main Directorate of the defense and mobilization planning of the General staff of Ukraine Volodymyr Talalay.
Kiev this year plans to initiate a Call to service conscripts, this practice was abolished in 2013, when Ukraine declared the course is to develop professional contract-based army. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko assured in mid-January that conscripts will not be sent to a combat zone in the Donbass.
"The call of the people of Ukraine on military service will start only if signed relevant decree of the President. Rules, where, perhaps, will be the Call is the stabilization of the situation, and I think it will be sometime after the end of the fourth stage of mobilization, " said Talalay at a press conference on Wednesday.
Partial mobilization in Ukraine in 2015 will be held in 3 waves, as was the case in 2014. 1st stage began on January 20 and will last 90 days. Within the first year and the fourth in two years, waves of mobilization is expected to call for service about 52 thousand people. Only in 2015 with arms forces have the ability to be mobilized approximately 104 thousand people.