Source: Hromadske Radio

Draft law No. 7381 was submitted to the Rada by three MPs from the Servant of the People party on 17 May. At the same time, the president extends martial law and general mobilisation for Ukraine's Independence Day. The authors note that in this way, they are helping those who are not ready to defend Ukraine with arms not to flee the country or hide from possible mobilisation, but to do other work to support and strengthen the economy and defence capabilities of the state.

Maksym Dyomin: The draft law has five categories of people who are offered to postpone the draft. The first is employees of defence and agricultural companies. The second is employees of other enterprises (it is not clear which sectors). The third is people who are officially engaged in the transport of humanitarian volunteer aid. The fourth is people who are officially volunteers. And the fifth group is entrepreneurs. All these categories, according to the draft law, will be able to get a deferral from service.

In fact, it takes 10 minutes to register as an individual entrepreneur in Ukraine. This incomprehensible story of avoiding mobilisation is clearly seen in this draft law.

• We have a very large number of individual entrepreneurs in the country, and perhaps most of them are not currently engaged in any activity. But this may be a kind of bypass of mobilisation and avoidance of the obligation to mobilise, at a time when our highest military leadership says that mobilisation is necessary and has been extended for 90 days.

Another interesting story is about volunteers. It's also very quick to register as a volunteer, and it's all done through an application to the tax office. In fact, you may not receive any money, you may not engage in this activity, but formally, officially, you can be a volunteer.

• When we analysed the draft law, we realised that it does not provide for any procedures to verify a person (whether their activities are in line with the declared activities). This is a threat.

The wording is very vague.

This draft law actually makes mobilisation voluntary. A person must express his or her consent to take up arms and participate in hostilities. In addition, a psychological analysis of the person must be carried out (whether he or she will be able to properly perform military duty in combat conditions).

I don't know how all this should be done and whether the recruitment centres have the right specialists, I'm not sure.

Now this draft law is very vague, and this is its danger. The more vague it is, the more dangerous it is.