Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

We're coming to you live from London.

I'm Paul Henley.

First, Ukraine is facing up to a crisis of military recruitment today as a

deadline passes for all men there between the ages of 18 and 60 to register

their details, a reluctance among some to fight the ongoing

Russian invasion is fueled by a controversial mobilization law, which means there is no

cap on people's length of service.

Most of those who wanted to volunteer did so long ago

and an either are now dead, injured or still fighting,

and with little rest.

Alina Frolova, who is former Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister, now speaks

for the Centre for Defence Strategies in Kyiv.

And she denied there was any kind of emergency going on in recruitment.

Till now more than 4 million men updated their data in different ways.

So we do have a manpower. We obviously had some problems with organizing the process. Now is much better.

And all these difficulties with organization, they of course created some kind of public tension.

But I think that this is the normal way of doing these unpleasant things, which is mobilization actually for many people.

Is the government worried about people going underground, failing or refusing to register?

I don't think that there are too many or prevailing part who are trying to avoid.

There are those cases which become in public of those people who are trying to avoid, but

my feeling is that this is not like a prevailing

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