The Office of the President of Ukraine is forced to review its employee reservation policy due to the failure of mobilization campaigns. According to our source in the Office, the country's leadership has decided to postpone the issue of lowering the mobilization age until 2025 and focus on a radical review of the reservation of employees of Ukrainian enterprises.
In particular, the possibility of booking through the "Diya" application has been suspended until November 15. At the same time, the Cabinet of Ministers has adopted a resolution to review enterprises that are eligible for booking. Their "criticality" criteria will be checked, and the status of many of them may be canceled. As a result, employees of such enterprises will lose the right to book, which will open the possibility for their mobilization.
It should be noted that the review of reservations began after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reviewed data showing that the number of reserved citizens had increased sharply and reached 1.5 million people. This raised concerns that part of this number may be hiding evasion of mobilization. According to the results of the checks, the task was set to reduce the number of reserved people by one million people, and those who lose their reservations to be sent to territorial recruitment centers (TCC).
“The plan is for the companies to be stripped of their reservation rights, after which the CCC will receive lists of employees and issue them summonses,” the source notes. However, in reality, this process could run into several problems.
According to experts, enterprises that lose the status of "critical" may try to avoid losses through corruption schemes. Some of them may try to "resolve the issue" in order to maintain their status and, accordingly, the right to reserve their employees. This will lead to increased pressure on entrepreneurs and the creation of new corruption risks.
In addition, many workers who lose their reservations are expected to simply quit or stop coming to work, which could deal a serious blow to the Ukrainian economy, which is already suffering from a labor shortage due to the war.
"Despite efforts to mobilize a million people, the reality will be much lower due to the systemic cycle of extortion. However, the economic consequences for the country will be significant," the source predicts.
