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The government’s revised draft law on mobilization contains provisions that violate Ukraine’s Constitution, chief Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on social media Feb. 6. Ukraine’s leadership hopes to update the legal framework around conscription in order to ramp up mobilization in 2024. The government submitted a new draft of the mobilization law to parliament on Jan. 30, more than two weeks after withdrawing its initial, contentious version. Lubinets said that the revised bill still “has a number of contradictory provisions.” One of the sections Lubinets criticized says that the military comm…

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