Ukraine to engage recruitment firms for targeted conscription
Kyiv • UNN
Ukraine plans to use commercial recruitment companies for targeted military recruitment, ensuring that people are matched to the roles for which they are best suited, as explained by NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov. This new approach aims to meet Ukraine's personnel needs more flexibly and accurately.
Ukraine to change conscription policy to maintain combat capability. Innovations in the conscription of citizens for military service include the use of commercial recruitment firms. This is to ensure that those mobilized fulfill the roles that best that best suit their skills. NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov told about this in an interview with the Guardian , UNN reports .
Some people are afraid, afraid to die, afraid to shoot, but this does not mean that they cannot engage in other activities... Now we have a new minister with a new approach.
Details
The changes are expected to be announced this week. They will will include the use of commercial recruitment companies to conduct more targeted recruitment and reassurance to recruits that they will be placed in roles that match their skills.
Danilov noted that the army would cooperate with Ukraine's two largest recruitment companies in Ukraine to identify people with specific skills and attract qualified Ukrainians who want to help the army but do not want to go to the front, from trying to to evade conscription.
Mobilization will become more flexible, the specialties that are needed will be announced, and people will be announced, and people will volunteer for a specific position. For example, they need welders or mechanics, and so on.
A source in the Defense Ministry confirmed that contracts have already been signed with personnel companies have already been signed. However, the names of the companies were not disclosed. It is not clear yet to what extent recruitment companies will be involved in the process, and at what level the general recruitment for the front line will continue.
Danilov admitted that there is indeed a recruitment problem in Ukraine. At the same time, he noted that Russian propaganda exaggerates the scale of the problem. "Russia is trying to fuel this issue, saying that we do not have enough soldiers, that we have problems with mobilization... There are always problems in life, let's not let's not overestimate them," he said.
To recap,
On November 21, President Zelenskyy announcedthat a comprehensive mobilization plan would be presented in a week after discussing current military issues and conscription. Zelenskyy entrusted the development of this document to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
