​Ukraine’s new draft law on military mobilization will not include the conscription of women and will not introduce a lottery, a lawmaker said Monday evening, a day before the parliamentary security committee was to vote on what to do with the bill.

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07:29 Yehor Chernev, Deputy Chairman of the VRU Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, on the new Ukrainian draft law on conscription: “I can say for sure that there will be no drawing of lots for conscription, no mobilization of women. There will be no unconstitutional provisions.”

Proposed changes to the mobilization rules, which would allow Kyiv to recruit more troops and strengthen sanctions against desertion, have drawn public criticism. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights stated that some of the proposals are unconstitutional.

The Homeland Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee is considering proposed changes to the bill on Thursday. On Tuesday, he will approve the proposed changes or send the bill to the government for revision. (Reuters)

00:35 Russian citizens who fled the country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and have since returned can be considered “sinners,” but they have repented, Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said. The head of the Russian Church noted that he cannot reject people who “understand that they have made a mistake.”

00:03White House officials met Monday with several leaders of venture capital firms and the technology and defense industries to boost the Biden administration’s interest in supporting Ukraine’s access to cutting-edge American equipment. Senior administration officials told Reuters

A brief summary of recent events:

• In his address to Ukrainians on Monday evening, Zelensky said: “This month will be a busy one in Ukraine’s foreign policy. I am confident that many steps will be taken to strengthen our country, our air defenses and cooperation with partners in the field of drones. It is also necessary to strengthen sanctions against Russia.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that most EU countries do not supply Ukraine with enough weapons to help it in its war against Russia, and called on the EU to increase efforts in this direction.
• Russian colonel Arman Ospanov would have died if he stepped on a mine, Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, reported on Monday with reference to Russian Telegram channels.
• Ukrainian military intelligence announces the seizure of secret data of a Russian drone manufacturer. HUR says it has seized 100 gigabytes (GB) of classified data worth about $1.5 billion from the Russian company Center for Special Technologies.
• The White House is denying rumors that the Pentagon chief was fired after last week’s scandal.
• Bloomberg: Cold weather has finally arrived, but winter is already over for gas workers / “Vladimir Putin has been defeated.” And HotNews.ro recently showed in its analysis that it is already possible to talk about the victory of Europe in the energy war with Russia
• ​A military plane of the Russian Air Force, which Moscow officially calls “space”, accidentally dropped a bomb on the city of Rubizhne, Luhansk region.
• On Monday, the leader of pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk region, Denys Pushylin, called for the capture of the cities of Odesa and Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, as he considers them to be historically Russian.
• ‘Death to spies’: Russians hint they have reinstated Joseph Stalin’s SMERSH service.
• “The enemy mercilessly attacked peaceful cities”: A wave of Russian missiles hit several cities in Ukraine on Monday morning. On Monday morning, Russia launched a large-scale missile attack on the territory of Ukraine, hitting residential and industrial facilities.

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