An eight-year-old boy in the southwestern Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankovsk has received a notification that he is to be conscripted to the army, UNIAN news agency reported on Wednesday.
"At first, my wife and I were shocked by the draft notice, and then we laughed. We immediately informed the military authorities they sent the conscription the wrong person, but that did not work out," the father of the 'conscript' told the news agency.
On April 19, the day when the conscription was to take place, the family went to the military authorities and showed a birth certificate showing that Misha was born in 2001.
In Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, a young man can be conscripted at the age of 18.
The military authorities have so far refused to give comments.
KIEV, April 21 (RIA Novosti)
