military leaders: Lithuania should help Ukraine gather mobilized men

In order to attract more soldiers to Kyiv, the parliament of Ukraine changed the mobilization law, which reduced the mandatory military service age to 25 and shortened the punishments for those who avoid military service.

Ukraine also decided not to issue a new allowance to its male citizens living abroad and to stop providing consular services to men in 1860.

Ukraine must have its own mobilization plans, said G. Nausda in the LRT radio debate on Monday. Ukraine must have the opportunities and instruments to call its young men to fulfill their duty.

We must cooperate with Ukraine in every sense, the president added.

At that time, the prime minister aspiring for the post of head of oil claimed that Lithuania could take certain measures to help Ukraine, but some of the measures needed to be consulted at the level of the European Union (EU).

Maybe somehow, when considering the application for a temporary residence permit, we could make sure that the person has fulfilled his mobilization obligation or is exempted from it. But here we have to cooperate not only with the Ukrainian institutions, but also more widely, because at the moment the so-called temporary protection applies to Ukrainian companies in the EU, said I. imonyt.

That temporary protection is quite universal, the guarantees of those protections that are given to the citizens of Ukraine in the EU are very broad, it is obvious that it is not a matter of one or two states, she added.

Last week, Polish Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said that Varuva could help Ukraine in recruiting men of the open air.

Responding to this, Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasinas stated that Lithuania should follow Poland’s example regarding the mobilization of Ukrainians living abroad.

However, later the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, claimed that Varuva’s help in handing over male victims to Ukraine is an ethically questionable step, and added that Kyiv must take the initiative in this matter.

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