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Former Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov said he planned to start the mobilization reform by addressing the issue of SZCh and reducing the number of draft evaders. He emphasized that millions of Ukrainian men are currently wanted by the TCC, and the entire state machine is working to find them. Fedorov is convinced that a phased and targeted mobilization would allow the rest of the citizens to calmly work for the country’s economy.
Fedorov said this 6 August during a live broadcast on the channel of public figure Serhii Sternenko. The ex-minister explained in detail the logic of reforming the mobilization system that he did not have time to implement while in office.
"First is resolving the issue with SZCh, because if you have 200+ thousand in SZCh and you are constantly looking for new people, the logic of mobilization doesn’t work very well," said Mykhailo Fedorov, former minister of defense.
Fedorov named the mass search for draft evaders as the second fundamental problem of the current system. According to him, a large number of people are wanted, and virtually the entire state apparatus spends resources on finding and mobilizing those specific individuals.
"Second — a large number of people are wanted, and in fact the whole state machine works to search for and mobilize these people. We were supposed to launch certain stages — not 2 million people wanted, but a large number of people who know they have been subject to mobilization and for whom all conditions have been created to serve," Fedorov explained.
The ex-minister emphasized that the rest of the citizens could meanwhile calmly continue working for the country’s economy. In his view, such a model would change approaches to communication with mobilized persons, their training and unit selection, and at the same time the state would get rid of the problem of millions of people being wanted.
Explained why he did not have time to implement the reform
Fedorov presented the reform vision as part of a broader plan whose implementation was interrupted by his dismissal from the post of minister of defense. According to him, the first stage already concerned new short contracts, service terms, pay and the return of servicemen from SZCh, and the second was to change the mobilization process itself.
The ex-minister insists that a targeted approach to conscription would replace the current practice of mass searches, where the state is forced to chase draft evaders instead of efficiently staffing units.
Revealed plans for the day of his dismissal
Earlier Informator reported that on the day of his dismissal Fedorov planned to present the mobilization reform and intended to sign an order on the first changes in the work of the TCC. Those plans remained unrealized due to personnel changes in the Ministry of Defense.
We also wrote that MP Serhii Rakhmanin called Fedorov’s dismissal a mistake, while at the same time saying he considers the former minister’s return to the Ministry of Defense impossible. According to him, the situation around the ministry’s personnel decisions remains complicated.
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