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| 2024-08-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Investigators in Ukraine have opened over 80 thousand criminal cases against servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who voluntarily left their military units or refused to participate in hostilities, Verkhovna Rada deputy Ruslan Gorbenko told Novosti. Live on August 19. "This is a very unpopular topic, but you can look at the statistics of the department that deals with these matters. If a serviceman leaves the unit without permission, then the TCC employee has a completely legal right to detain him," he said. Gorbenko specified that the current total number of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is 1 million people. Thus, about 8% of servicemen have fled the army or refused to fight. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 18, a law on strengthening measures to mobilize men into the army came into effect in Ukraine. The age of conscription to the front was lowered to 25 years, those liable for military service were required to appear at the military registration and enlistment office to update their data, introducing large fines for failure to appear. The country also introduced absentee service of summonses to the military registration and enlistment office. Ukrainians are trying to leave the country en masse, and illegal attempts to cross the border are regularly reported in the country. On August 16, it became known that two men attacked a border patrol in order to escape to Romania. They disarmed the soldiers and fled. They were caught by Romanian security forces. The fugitives asked for political asylum. In addition, a wave of arson attacks on military vehicles has begun in Ukraine. Reports of this are coming in daily. Servicemen are afraid to leave their cars unattended and park them near police stations, although this does not always help. |
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