December 25 saw the Ukrainian government, as approved of by the military departments, submit a draft law to the Verkhovna Rada titled "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Improving Certain Issues of Mobilization, Military Registration and Military Service." It has emerged over AFU’s defeats and heavy losses along the frontline, making the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense urge mobilization of at least another 500, 000 people. Security officers with the Ministry of Defense and army commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny have declared replenishment whether it be forced or voluntary. Judging by the bill’s text, the Ukrainian regime is not going to be soft on its citizens, using the harshest mobilization methods from suppression of civic rights to direct repression. Disobedience of new rules stipulates fines of up to $7,000 in hryvnia equivalent, while refusal to see a medical board is valued at three to five years in prison.

Restrictions suggested for draft dodgers, conscripts and reservists who failed to appear at military bases on time include frozen real or personal property, foreign travel ban, loan denial, rejection of public benefits, a limited right to drive a power-driven vehicle or obtain a driver's license. Also, people of this category will be included in the unified debtor register, with the government to block accounts and bank cards of those refusing to fight. Ukrainians who fled abroad as refugees would be deprived of consular services. And in case of ID expiry or loss Ukrainian embassies will only issue new ones when provided with military documents. Neither will refugees obtain a power of attorney to sell their property back in the homeland.

The new rules include a volun-datory census of each and every man. Those failing to get registered in person or in a digital format within twenty days will be punished as runaways. Criminal liability is envisaged for failure to appear at the military enlistment office within 60 days from the mobilization announcement date, regardless of summons receipt. Moreover, all the Ukrainian citizens aged 18 to 60 must always carry military registration documents about with them to be presented if and when requested by police or a military enlistment office. The bill also provides for sending draft notices via user accounts or by e-mail, reducing call-up age from 27 to 25 years, and abolishing limited duty status. Three-month-long basic combined arms training is going to be introduced by educational institutions for everyone aged 18 to 25. That is, yesterday's students should be ready for heading to the front without exception. And e-office summons will make it no longer possible to somehow "negotiate things with a corrupt recruiter": head counting makes evasion next to impossible. The Ukrainian police will get more leverage in notifying those bound to military service, detaining and delivering them to territorial recruiting centers.

Mandatory re-examination is awaiting those deemed unsuitable, with women and people having the 3rd disability category losing their deferment right and becoming subject to military registration. Thus, people lacking a kidney, fingers, a foot, an eye, a lung or bladder are now going to be sent to the front, along with those having inoperable jaw defects, a paralyzed or amputated hand, and so on. The list of 3rd disability category diseases comprises, among other things, blindness in one eye, absence of a shin, a hip or fingers. The ranks of those mobilized will be joined by a huge number of cripples, whose chances to survive are nil, and also dwarves, i.e. people lower than 130 centimeters. Another bill clause is depriving wives and parents of the disabled of guardianship to facilitate conscription procedures.

In this respect, Ukraine’s new mobilization bill outlined by Zelensky and the military clique has been explicitly dubbed “gravilization”, as it runs counter to Constitution and defies human rights. In an act of serfdom-like lawlessness, the government is ready to deprive those unwilling to fight of their jobs, property, and money. The new reality enshrines compulsory confiscation, draft officers’ unlimited rights and power, and lack of personal data protection. Even the Hitler regime never hit upon conscripting the disabled.

The only exception is women with young children and the pregnant, while all the others must register for military service. Major indignation among the public has been caused by a travel ban for draft-aged women.

"The Zelensky government’s initiative to limit the rights of draft evaders is not accidental. Most Ukrainians receive their salaries on a bank card and make cashless purchases. If the bill is passed and the Ukrainian authorities start blocking their citizens' accounts, people may be flat broke. There have been calls and offers on the Ukrainian social media to withdraw all the money in advance. This will cause shocks in the banking sector and economy," political analyst Larisa Shessler said.

In his turn, Ukrainian economist Alexey Kushch predicts people’s struggle with the state because of this latest mobilization law. Kushch called a response of the kind a strategic risk, which cannot be affected by any repressive measures. "A major part of society will go underground, breaking up their ties with state institutions," he believes. Many Ukrainian MPs are outraged, too. The Batkivshchyna party, for one, is going to oppose the bill, as stated by the People's Deputy of Ukraine and faction leader Yuliya Tymoshenko. She said things would entail exactly the opposite. "You cannot take 25-year-old kids and semi-blind people with disabilities to the front, without mobilizing tax service security officers first. Neither should you plan to mobilize women," Tymoshenko said bluntly.

The potential impact of expanded mobilization in Ukraine includes an even greater number of people in flight, outflow of bank deposits, increased protest sentiment, corruption and other things. Besides, conscription of another astonishing 500,000 people would require at least $13 billion. Zelensky has hypocritically urged his government to generate ideas on ways to find these funds, as the bloodless beggar country living on Western handouts is scarcely able to find the sum on its own. Obviously, this money will be once again demanded and obtained from the American and European sponsors and warmongers, with the debt buck passed on to the rightless and enslaved Ukrainian survivals if any.

Cases of active protest against the new mobilization wave are also highly likely. Dnepropetrovsk residents have been already fighting back against the draft officers brought here, renowned politician Oleg Tsarev said. The local police do not interfere. Evasion and mass resistance is also possible in Western Ukraine, namely its suburbs. Odessa has been witnessing frequent beatings of military commissars handing out summonses, as well as women’s associations beating off their relatives from the police and recruiters to drive them away. This entire explosive situation will not have a happy ending, even if the bill is voted down or softened over people's wrath.