The General Staff of the Armed Forces commented on the inclusion of women in the military register from October 1.
"The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has developed proposals for making changes to the List of specialties and/or professions related to the relevant military accounting specialties, after obtaining which women are accepted for military registration of conscripts.
The order provides that from October 1, 2022, women who have certain specialties and/or professions will be registered as conscripts.
At the same time, joint mobilization during the war with the Russian Federation showed that about 1% of the total number of women mobilized were called up for military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations.
The majority of women are appointed to the positions of medical staff, communication units, moral and psychological support, clerks, accountants and cooks. Currently, the Armed Forces still need women specialists in medicine, radio engineering and food technology.
Thus, the experience of deploying military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations to full wartime staff proves that the state currently does not have an urgent need to significantly increase the number of women on the military register.
Taking this into account, the Main Personnel Department of the General Staff worked out proposals to include women in the military register of conscripts only with their consent. It is also proposed to start taking measures to include women in military registration no earlier than a month after the end of the special period in the state," the message reads.
