"In total, according to chief enlistment officers, 9,493 people evade mobilization in Lviv region," a statement said.
In January, Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted an edict detailing three steps of conscription in 2015. According to the edict, the total number of the draftees could reach 144,000 in 2015.
The campaign has been bogged down by large-scale draft-dodging and protests against the "senseless war" in the east.
The fifth wave of mobilization in Ukraine began on April 27, aimed at boosting the Armed Forces' combat capabilities amid the Donbass conflict. The presidential decree obliges now even female doctors, women liable for military service, and those who are physically qualified to be ready to be drafted.
Since the beginning of the mobilization, more than 120 law enforcement cases have been filed under the article "evasion of mobilization", the penalty for which is imprisonment from two up to five years.
