The Diia portal has temporarily suspended the possibility of reserving employees liable for mobilisation from mobilisation until at least 15 November. When you try to submit an application in the ‘Booking’ section, the system reports: “The service is temporarily closed. We will be auditing the booked persons liable for military service until 15 November. We will inform you about the resumption of the service, so stay tuned.”
Oleksandr Fediyenko, MP from the Servant of the People party and member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence, commented on the situation, stressing that the criticality of enterprises is determined by the relevant ministries, as well as regional and military administrations.
He reminded that enterprises that have been granted criticality status can reserve up to 50% of their employees for military service. However, in his opinion, it is important to check how this status was granted by local administrations and to audit companies whose employees, having received reservations, went abroad and did not return.
Fediyenko also stressed the need to introduce safeguards to prevent abuse during the booking process. He drew attention to cases where business leaders used reservations to protect employees who did not fulfil their obligations. The MP also supported the idea of banning the departure of booked employees from the country without guarantees from the head of the company regarding their return.
Earlier it was reported that by 15 November, Ukraine plans to audit enterprises that have the status of critical enterprises granted by local authorities. Although the Ministry of Defence assured that the booking process would not be suspended for this period, there have been reports of an actual suspension of this process until 15 November.
This audit takes place against the backdrop of a significant increase in the number of people who have received reservations for mobilisation. While in July there were more than 500,000 such people, in a few months this number increased to more than a million.
