KYIV. March 17 (Interfax) - Oleksandr Turchynov, acting president of Ukraine and speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, said he has signed a decree on partial mobilization.
"I have signed a decree on partial mobilization," Turchynov said in a plenary session of the Ukrainian parliament on Monday morning.
Turchynov said the decree was signed due to the situation with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
The Ukrainian parliament has also registered a draft law approving the presidential decree on partial mobilization.
In accordance with the explanatory note attached to the bill, a decision on partial mobilization was made "due to the exacerbation of the sociopolitical situation on the Crimean peninsula."
Partial mobilization is conducted on the territory of all regions of Ukraine and in Kyiv. In Crimea and Sevastopol, citizens subject to mobilization are citizens who have voluntarily expressed a wish to be conscripted, including by coming to military commissariats and military units.
"The decree creates conditions for introducing a military time regime in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the National Guard of Ukraine, and other military units of Ukraine and civil defense operative and rescue services," the agenda says.
The mobilization will be conducted for a period for 45 days from the day of enactment of the aforementioned decree.
In accordance with Article 85 of the Ukrainian Constitution, the Ukrainian parliament has the powers to approve decrees introducing martial law or states of emergency in Ukraine or in some of its regions, general or partial mobilization, and on declaring specific areas as zones of ecological emergency within two days following the requests made by the president of Ukraine.