Parliament will be able to consider the draft law on mobilization in the second reading and in general after February 21, said chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk.

"It will be no earlier than the 21st, because this is the last day to submit amendments to this draft law," Stefanchuk said during a telethon.

He reminded that the Verkhovna Rada has 14 days between the first and second readings to amend the bill.

Stefanchuk said that he and MPs who are doctors of science and professors are preparing an amendment to postpone mobilization for graduate students.

"This will be a professors' amendment that we will insist on... We want to protect those graduate students who really want to move Ukrainian science forward," Stefanchuk said.

At the same time, MP Fedir Venislavsky said in a commentary to Ukrainian media that the Verkhovna Rada is unlikely to be able to pass the draft law on mobilization in the second reading by the end of February, as amendments to the document need to be worked out.

According to him, the draft law needs to be finalized, a committee needs to be held and each legislative proposal needs to be voted on.

"We won't be able to make it on February 22 physically, because the deadline for submitting legislative proposals and amendments expires on February 21. Therefore, the committee still has to process them. I think it will take a few days, the committee needs to work on it on February 22-23-24. We are unlikely to have time to consider it exactly. Let's just say that it is very unlikely that we will have time to consider it in February," Venislavsky said.