The Verkhovna Rada is drafting a invoice that can enable Ukrainian college students enrolled in universities overseas to freely cross Ukraine's borders. The potential change in legislature applies to male Ukrainian college students enrolled full-time in greater training establishments overseas.
Deputy head of the Verkhovna Rada's committee on human rights, Ruslan Horbenko mentioned on Dec. 23 that the invoice goals to strengthen the connection between younger Ukrainians overseas and their homeland.
Martial regulation prohibits males aged 18-60 from leaving Ukraine, with few exceptions, since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine started in February 2022.
"We should grant this class of residents the correct to go away and return to Ukraine with out hindrance to replace their paperwork, visas, or navy information," Horbenko was quoted as saying. "That is additionally needed to keep up the connection between younger folks and their homeland, in addition to their households in Ukraine."
As soon as getting into the nation from overseas, most male college students at present can not go away Ukraine once more.
The proposed invoice is a departure from U.S. calls to decrease the mobilization age in Ukraine. In latest months, U.S. lawmakers have pressured Ukrainian authorities to decrease the mobilization age from 25 to 18.
President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Dec. 9 that Ukraine won’t use "the youth of troopers" to make up for its gaps in navy tools and coaching. Zelensky added that Ukraine's focus ought to be equipping and coaching "current brigades" and that allies ought to work collectively to finish Russia's full-scale invasion.
The Kyiv IndependentOlena Goncharova