Secretary of the Committee The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko reported that on Monday, August 5, the Verkhovna Rada will consider a bill on amendments to the legislation on mobilization.
This information was reported by Nv.ua, reports “URA- Inform”.
In particular, a document has been developed that will prohibit the conscription of conscripts from 18 to 25 years old, who have completed their military service or graduated from a military department.
«We are considering it on Monday. This bill will contain a history of the ban on the conscription of these conscripts. And a provision that if such people were sent to the front during this period, they will have the right to dismissal. We are currently considering this issue», he said.
He assured that 19-year-olds will not be mobilized into the Armed Forces; this is only possible at their own request.
“I think that there are no 19-year-olds among those mobilized, because this story ended just in 2022. Such certificates were no longer issued that a person is of limited fitness in wartime and unfit in peacetime. They were issued until 2022. What was the problem? We have banned the conscription of conscripts from 18 to 25 years old. A conscript is a person who has not served in the army, who does not have a military ID, who does not have a military department. And he is not called up, only at his own request,” he noted.
Kostenko noted that according to the current legislation, this category is subject to military service, which is why they were called up.
«There is this category of people who received, for example, a military ID at the age of 20, which says that he is of limited use during martial law, and unsuitable during peacetime, and he will not go to the army for compulsory service… But when he receives a military ID, he becomes subject to military service. And these categories have not changed in our country. We had conscripts and draftees. And after the law was passed, nothing changed: they were subject to military service, they continued to go to the Armed Forces», — he explained.
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