Bill on mobilisation of convicts to be submitted to Ukraine’s parliament next week
Pravda Ukraine
A draft law on the possibility of mobilising convicted and imprisoned persons may be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, next week.
Source: Denys Maliuska, Minister of Justice on the national joint 24/7 newscast
Quote: “I think it will be registered next week. At the next session meetings of the Verkhovna Rada, it will be voted on in the first reading and the second as well. I expect it to be in spring, no later, and I think it’s not even the end of spring.”
Details: The Minister noted that “a lot (thousands) of prisoners and convicts are ready to become military personnel” and defend their country.
Denys Maliuska says that at the request of the military, the bill will exclude the mobilisation of those convicts who violated military discipline, committed crimes related to the performance of their military duty, and committed crimes against statehood.
“Such categories, probably, will not fall under the mobilisation. But the final point will be made by the parliament. I do not expect to delay the consideration in the parliament because so far I have not met a single politician, deputy or head of the Armed Forces who would actively oppose it,” Maliuska said.
At the same time, according to Denys Maliuska, not all military commanders are ready to take convicts to their units.
“We will not impose such mobilised servicemen on anyone. Most likely, these will be separate detachments. But in any case, only commanders who understand who they will deal with, and how to work with it, will receive appropriate units to defend their homeland,” the minister said.
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