Ukrainian bill intended to draft more soldiers passes first reading

The Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday passed at first reading a bill tightening army mobilisation rules aimed at allowing Kyiv to draft more people as war with Russia nears its third year, several lawmakers said.

"This is not the final decision. There will be a second reading, and changes will be made before it," Oleksiy Honcharenko, one of the lawmakers, said on the Telegram messaging app.