Ukraine Activist Proposes Mobilizing Childless Women

Ukraine called for mobilizing childless women.

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Sergey Gnezdilov, a supporter of former Ukrainian defense minister Mikhail Fedorov, proposed mobilizing childless Ukrainian women.
The proposal was made in a conversation with RBC-Ukraine on August 12.
A petition calling for mobilizing women was registered on August 10.
The petition's author argued for equal military obligations based on the principle of equality before the law.
The petition sought to extend military service obligations to able-bodied women without children.
Exceptions would apply for women with legal grounds for deferment.
A Ukrainian official from the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council denied the possibility of mobilizing women.

The activist stated that women without children, who are not students or working in medicine, should be mobilized. — vm
In Dnipro, a man who was raising a 13-year-old daughter alone was mobilized despite having a court order for guardianship and being in the process of applying for deferment. — vm
Journalists reported that mobilization centers in frontline areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions have engaged in 'distorted practices'. — vm
The petition was registered on August 10 and called for extending military duty to women without children. — vesti
There were reports of women being pressured and threatened into serving in the Armed Forces in Kharkiv Oblast. — vesti