General mobilization and martial law continue in Ukraine. Men liable for military service from 18 to 60 years old are subject to mobilization. In 2022, changes were made to the legislation, Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine on mobilization preparation and mobilization. The NV publication reported who can receive a deferment from service in 2023 for family reasons.

Who has a deferment from military service for family reasons.

Such persons include:.

women and men who have three or more children under the age of 18;

women and men independently raising a child (children) under the age of 18;

women and men, guardians, caregivers, foster parents, foster parents raising a child with a disability under the age of 18;

adoptive parents, guardians, custodians, adoptive parents, foster parents who support orphans or children deprived of parental care, under the age of 18;

women and men who have a minor child (children) and a husband (wife) who (who) is doing military service in one of the types of military service determined by part six of article 2 of the Law of Ukraine On military duty and military service;

pregnant women;

women and men whose close relatives (husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother or full (full, half) brother or sister) died or went missing in the implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, rebuff.

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Women and men whose close relatives (husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother or natural (full, half-blood) brother or sister) died or went missing during the anti-terrorist operation from among:.

military personnel or employees of military formations formed in accordance with the laws of Ukraine that defended the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, killed or missing while directly participating in the anti-terrorist operation, ensuring its conduct, being directly in the areas of the anti-terrorist operation during its conduct;

employees of enterprises, institutions, organizations who were involved in ensuring the conduct of the anti-terrorist operation and died or went missing during the conduct of the anti-terrorist operation directly in the regions and during its conduct;

persons killed or missing while directly participating in the anti-terrorist operation, ensuring its conduct, being directly in the areas of the anti-terrorist operation during its conduct as part of volunteer formations created or self-organized to protect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, provided that;

persons killed or missing while directly participating in the anti-terrorist operation, ensuring its conduct, being directly in the areas of its conduct as part of volunteer formations that were formed or self-organized to protect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, but in the future such volunteer formations.

Recall that in Ukraine, many men and women volunteer for the army to defend their country.. Thus, the procedure by which volunteers can obtain the status of a participant in hostilities was recently approved..