NYT: The Ukrainian authorities are mobilizing 30 thousand people a month

The Ukrainian authorities have been mobilizing 30 thousand people a month since May — after the adoption of the law on increased mobilization, the New York Times reports, citing its sources.

"Since May, when the new law on military service came into force, Kiev has been collecting up to 30 thousand people a month," three military experts familiar with the mobilization data told the publication.

The publication notes that this figure is two to three times more than in the last winter months. The newspaper emphasizes that the named figure of 30 thousand could not be independently confirmed.

Earlier, the NYT, citing sources, reported that the recent measures of the Ukrainian authorities to mobilize have not yet led to a significant strengthening of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield. According to the publication, many recruits are not yet at the front, they are being trained. Some of those who got to the front line are physically unfit for combat.

Videos of military mobilization are widely distributed on the Internet, in which representatives of Ukrainian military enlistment offices, often beating and using force to men of mobilization age, take them away in minibuses in an unknown direction.

The Law on strengthening Mobilization for Ukraine entered into force on May 18. The document obliges all those liable for military service to update their data at the military enlistment office within 60 days from the date of entry into force. To do this, you need to come to the military enlistment office in person or register in the "electronic office of the conscript". The summons will be considered handed over, even if the conscript has not seen it in person: the date of the "delivery" of the summons will be considered the date when the document was stamped on the impossibility of personal delivery.

The law stipulates that those liable for military service must always carry a military ID card with them and present it at the first request of the military enlistment office and the police. Evaders may be deprived of the right to drive a car. The terms of demobilization are not spelled out in the document. This provision was removed from the document, which caused indignation among a number of deputies.