The number of Ukrainian citizens who have been reserved for military service currently stands at about 930,000 and will cross the 1 million mark in a week, Forbes Ukraine quoted Deputy Defense Minister Ivan Havryliuk as saying speaking at the roundtable talk "Legislative approaches to reserving employees of enterprises" on Monday.

The Deputy Minister noted that Russia at the same time continues to increase its presence in the occupied territories of Ukraine: if by the beginning of the year the Russian Federation's grouping in the occupied territories numbered 440,000 people, now it is about 600,000, and by the end of the year it is expected to grow to 800,000 people.

Speaking about mobilization, Havryliuk said that today it does not meet the needs of the army, because the mobilized will become a fighter only in 3-6 months.

Earlier, the Ministry of Economy indicated that about 800,000 people were reserved in Ukraine.

Since the launch of electronic reservation through Diia a little over a month ago, enterprises have used it to reserve about 170,000 people.