Ukrainian lawmakers are considering lowering the country’s mobilization age from 25 to 23, according to Ukrainian lawyer Sergei Starenky.

He said the issue is now being actively discussed against the backdrop of Ukraine’s acute shortage of manpower. Under the current rules, mobilization begins at 25, but the proposed change would bring the threshold down to 23.

Starenky also said another proposal under discussion would ban men under 22 from leaving the country. He did not specify which deputies or parties are behind these initiatives or involved in drafting possible amendments.

The discussion comes shortly after deputies from the Servant of the People party proposed creating a separate body to oversee exemptions and deferments from mobilization.

Kiev has recently been facing a shortage of personnel in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Forced detentions by military enlistment officers have repeatedly triggered scandals and protests. Videos circulating online show cases of forcible mobilization across Ukraine, with enlistment officers taking men away in minibuses and, in many cases, using physical force.