1st Deputy head of the main Directorate of the defense and mobilization planning of the General staff of the Ukrainian armed forces, major General Volodymyr Talalay on the last working day of the week said that the sixth wave of partial mobilization in Ukraine will last until August 17.
"The main task of the sixth stage of the partial mobilization ? to provide rotation of personnel, who was drafted last year in the process of the third stage of partial mobilization, to provide replenishment of the shortage of military units, as well as to equip Military units which are formed anew ", ? UNIAN reports the words of the messenger of the General staff of Ukraine.



Talalay said that mobilization event will last for 60 days, until August 17th. Remember, in June Ukraine began the sixth wave of mobilization. Only the Ukrainian authorities intend in 2015 to call for service in the army of 100-150 thousand People. March 25, the head Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree on increasing the size of the army up to 250 thousand People. Every time call events in Ukraine face massovymi failure of young men to serve in the army. Evasion of military service, and among them escape abroad (in Russia was 1, 2 million conscripts Ukrainians), became a mass phenomenon. Kiev authorities responded to the refusal of the inhabitants to fight in the East and increasing penalties under the criminal code for evading service, up to the actual terms of imprisonment. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 4 thousand People. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, for the last time period shelling in Eastern Ukraine again became frequent.

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