Ukraine’s new defense minister outlines mobilization approach and troop support
Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara (Photo: mod.gov.ua)
Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara outlined his approach to
mobilization in parliament on Aug. 19, saying it requires “a comprehensive
decision,” Interfax-Ukraine
reported.
“Mobilization requires a comprehensive decision. We need to
understand that the first component — and an important one — is the situation
in the military: treating troops with dignity and the conditions under which
they serve and conduct combat operations. It covers how personnel are selected
and recruited, equipped, trained and supplied with weapons; how they gain
experience, carry out combat missions and recover,” Khmara said.
“Once we complete that task, we move on to the mobilization
plan,” he added.
Khmara said the mobilization plan depends directly on an
overall war plan that is still being developed.
He said he is working on those issues with
Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi and the General Staff. The resulting plan
will then be presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“The issue will then be assessed on the basis of the plan we
develop,” Khmara concluded.
Yevhenii Khmara’s appointment as defense minister
Parliament appointed Serhiy Koretskyi as prime minister on
July 16, replacing Yulia Svyrydenko, and approved a new government except for
the foreign and defense ministers, whose nominations the president had not
submitted.
The government appointed Yevhenii Khmara as acting defense
minister and Andrii Sybiha as acting foreign minister on July 17.
Zelenskyy submitted Khmara’s nomination for defense minister
and Sybiha’s nomination for foreign minister to parliament on Aug. 18.
Parliament appointed
Khmara as Ukraine’s defense minister on Aug. 19. Addressing lawmakers, he said
he had left military service.
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