The Ministry of Defense wants "Reserve Offices+" instead of recruitment centers: hubs with military medical commissions and psychological assessment
Functions will be split into subdivisions for staffing and social support with partial digitization of procedures
The team of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has initiated the reformatting of territorial centers for recruitment and social support into a new structure called Reserve+ Offices; the idea is already being discussed at the state level.
According to the developments, the new units should have separate recruitment offices and support offices, the publication Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Recruitment offices will be responsible for keeping records of persons liable for military service, planning mobilization campaigns, recruitment and processing for service. In public spaces it is planned to open recruitment points, and in separate premises — recruitment hubs for volunteers and persons liable for service who will be brought in by the police.
In these hubs they plan to check documents, conduct military medical examinations, and also assess candidates’ mental resilience and professional suitability.
Support offices are to focus on the social component: processing compensation for wounded servicemembers, one‑time payments to families of the deceased and organizing burials. Some procedures are planned to be moved to a digital format to simplify and speed up interactions.
According to a source in the military leadership, the TCCs currently provide the armed forces with more than 30 thousand mobilized personnel and contract servicemembers per month, so discussion participants do not want to dismantle the existing system, and a key contentious question remains who should deliver men from the street to the TCCs: the Ministry of Defence proposed to place this function exclusively on the police without military involvement, but the police opposed this, and there is no final agreement yet.
Current legal norms stipulate that only police officers are authorized to detain and deliver persons liable for military service to the TCCs.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defence, the General Staff and the Office of the President continue to refine the reform concept; no specific launch dates have been set yet. Proposals are not recorded in either draft laws or government resolutions, and amendments to the drafts are being made almost daily.
Earlier we wrote:
- Not from April 1: the Ministry of Defence postponed the launch of the TCC reform; 90% of deferments extended through the Reserve+ system
- A global restructuring of mobilization: what the Rada and the Ministry of Defence are preparing
- “No TCC patrols on the streets”: is the state changing mobilization rules from 2026?
- Mobilization without ‘vans’: the Ministry of Defence proposes a reform for voluntary service
- The Verkhovna Rada is considering disbanding TCCs and social support units in favor of new recruiting centers
