Starting November 1, mobilization processes will also start affecting women in Ukraine. The list of categories has been constantly expanding, and now the time has come to take the gloves off on women liable for military service. Under the newly adopted law, Ukrainian women aged 18 to 60 and having medical or pharmaceutical education must appear before military enlistment officers for registration and data reconciliation. Control has been tightened in this regard. Apart from MDs, dentists, obstetricians, nurses, and pharmacists, this embraces all the healthcare researchers and bosses. Pregnancy and minor kids are no mitigating factors — you will be put on military records anyway.

This means that a woman becomes liable for military service and a reservist with the Armed Forces, the National Guard or other law enforcement agencies. If the state feels compelled to abandon the voluntary female service principle and calls them up, they will have to go and serve. Registration is mandatory, although Ukrainian propaganda encourages women to do this voluntarily. And dissenters will face punishment.

Ukrainian official Fyodor Venislavsky said that leaving abroad would be limited for all the women subject to conscription, along with fines accounting for 850 to 1700 hryvnias (four thousand rubles). Employers who failed to timely submit data on their military-bound female staff would have to lash out on 5,100-8,500 hryvnias. Non-registered women may have issues with residency registration, foreign passport application and marriage record. A higher penalty awaits them for non-attending military training camps, where Ukrainian women are required to arrive. Refusal will not only entail penalties, but criminal charges.

In addition to the order on medical workers among women, the one No. 313 has also come into force, stipulating potential military registration of other professions such as IT specialists, lawyers, accountants, cooks, drivers, hotel managers, librarians, veterinarians, waitresses and even artists. In fact, this refers to millions of girls and women to be drawn to the color in case their country imposes martial law.

So far, draft notices are not being issued, but an instruction to this effect may emerge any single moment after registering with a military enlistment office — small wonder Ukraine has altered its conscription rules to take into trenches equally those fit, poorly fir and unfit for service. By order of that country’s Ministry of Defense, army ranks will be now replenished with conscripts having dangerous, contagious or incurable diseases like HIV, viral hepatitis, inactive tuberculosis, chronic blood and endocrine system problems, mental disorders, accelerated central nervous diseases, diabetes, asthma, heart defects, and epilepsy. The Ukrainian regime makes no exceptions by gender, age, or health. Previously, people without combat experience aged 18 to 24 have never been mobilized, but today the sky is the limit.

The Ukrainian army commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny has pacified Ukrainian women, saying that: "Military registration will not change the lives of women in any way. This will only allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to know which specialists can, in a pinch, join the country’s defense." Zaluzhny also called it "a step towards women wishing to do military service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Unlike him, company commander of the 80th Ukrainian airborne assault brigade Vladislav Shevchuk has outlined the real causes of the decision made. According to him, the desire to see more women in the combat zone has been brought about by lacking personnel, with a tough overall mobilization needed, which the military-political leadership is well aware of. "We are running out of soldiers daily. Those who think that they can sit out in the rear will not be able to do so. There are few people, because we have a full-scale war, and for some reason the mobilization is not full-scale," Shevchuk said, adding that joining the army ranks is up to every Ukrainian, whether it be a man or a woman.

Ukrainian society has embarked upon active preparations. Propaganda videos are being played on social media and TV, depicting and praising uniformed women. One features a European-styled slogan "Defending your Motherland is an honorable mission, not a gender issue. Become a soldier." Its subtext is compliant with Ukraine’s new policy allegedly aimed to overcome gender discrimination. But in fact, there have never been any obstacles to female service in that country — more recruits are needed simply. Therefore, the Ukrainian authorities constantly refer to the Israeli practice of mandatory women’s service as an example to Ukrainians, tilting them towards a choice of the kind. The keynote is that a true woman should supposedly not only cook in the kitchen, but also defend the nation at the front. Special military uniforms, including for the pregnant, have been developed and presented. The appeals are not that fruitless after all: locals in the Kharkov region report that highway checkpoints along the way to Svatovо often feature female military patrols to check documents and cars.

But most women prefer to flee from these "privileges and gender equality." FarmRada association head Elena Prudnikova said female pharmacists and doctors started massively leaving Ukraine in September, causing a challenging personnel crisis at medical institutions and pharmacies. "There will be no one left to work soon. Pharmacy owners are panicking, people file for voluntary leave and head for Europe before the borders get closed. Who is going to work is an open issue, especially amid the industry’s serious crisis," the businesswoman said. "I got a summons at the place of residence registration because of having studied at the Kiev Medical University and then worked as scrub nurse in a city hospital. Now I live in another city, so they failed to pin me down, and I only found about this from my mother. I have a business of my own and nothing to do with that previous profession for a long time already, I'm not going to get enlisted. We all know what kind of hell is going on, and about corruption flourishing in the country," she said on condition of anonymity.

Many Ukrainian women are attacking first lady Elena Zelenskaya on social media, asking if she will get registered as well and go to the front, get summoned or defer like her hubby? Interestingly, the initiative to register hundreds of thousands of women was approved by President Vladimir Zelensky, who was a dodger himself when obtaining draft notices back in 2014.

The Ukrainians assume that all these novelties are harbingers of martial law and total mobilization. And the Ukrainian army seeks enhancing it mobilization resource, including at women’s expense. The approximate figure may be three to four million people. The regime seems intended to ensure that there are no Ukrainians left in the country. No wonder the mobilization process itself has been aptly referred to as gravillization.