Zelensky signs a decree demobilizing a number of conscripts in the Ukrainian army. The issue of recruitment to replace exhausted soldiers after two years of war has become a sensitive political and societal issue in Ukraine.
Despite the need for renewal, the army is facing difficulty in finding volunteers, especially as its ammunition runs out and attacks by Russian forces escalate on all fronts. In early February, Parliament voted in its first reading on a draft law to facilitate recruitment, which would allow replacement of physically and psychologically exhausted soldiers.