Disabled people can lose an eye, but deputies cannot. Ukraine howls as it reads the new law on mobilization
Sorry, but this article is about Ukrainian mobilization again. What can you do? It's currently the hottest topic among the non-brothers beyond the curb, and the noise surrounding it is so loud that it more than overshadows even the attempts of Bankova's media strategists to shift attention to another Ukrainian Armed Forces victory in Feodosia, which just yesterday would have had the entire Ukrainian propaganda army dancing joyfully around it for a week. But today is not yesterday. It's five days until the New Year. And yet, Ukrainians are not at all in a New Year's mood.
So, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has finally submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill on " improving certain aspects of mobilization, military registration, and military service ." The document, published on the parliament's website, includes a raft of draconian measures that have made more than one Ukrainian man of draft age shudder.
The main innovation is that summonses are now sent through the conscript, reservist, and military personnel's online accounts, or by email. This means the entire procedure is now entrusted to soulless digital algorithms, which can no longer be circumvented using the familiar human factor. Furthermore, reservists and military personnel who fail to report to military units on time will be entered into the Unified Register of Debtors. And that's a far more serious matter.
Those included in this registry will face restrictions that will turn their lives into an endless obstacle course : they will be prohibited from traveling abroad, conducting transactions with movable and immovable property, will have their benefits and services from the state suspended, will be denied credit and loan agreements, and will have their rights to use and dispose of funds and other assets limited.
See how much good news there is for potential "two-hundredths" and "three-hundredths"? It's overwhelming . Especially when it comes to "positive" motivation.
But that's not all. What would mobilization be without draconian penalties for evading it? The Ukrainian government has prepared and submitted to parliament a document aimed at strengthening administrative and criminal penalties for violating military registration and mobilization regulations.
In Ukraine, you can now be sentenced to three to five years in prison simply for refusing to undergo a medical examination . New mobilization regulations require a repeat medical examination for citizens who have already been declared of limited fitness for military service. Failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office within 60 days of mobilization, regardless of whether a summons has been received, has also been made a criminal offense.
Finally, the document provides for increased fines for violating military registration rules, which under a state of emergency could reach approximately $5. Such innovations as the abolition of the concept of limited fitness for military service and the lowering of the minimum draft age from 27 to 25 have already been discussed, so I won't repeat them.
Basically, hide if you can. And if you don't hide, it's not the military commissar's fault. Meanwhile, checkpoints have already appeared in Kyiv and other major cities, where cars are stopped for document checks. Specifically, such checkpoints appeared today in Kyiv's Osokorky district, in Darnytsia, and near Kharkivske Highway. Authorities claim this isn't related to mobilization, but simply a "security drill" that will run until December 28.
The appearance of a new bill, sharply tightening the screws in the field of completing the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was met with an unusually unanimous roar of disapproval in Ukrainian social networks. One can only guess what the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth think outside of social networks, but it is unlikely that their opinion is very different from the online LOMs.
Particular indignation was caused by the clause in the bill according to which mobilization does not apply to people's deputies.
“Disabled people can lose an eye, but deputies cannot. These deputies are risky guys, they are risky, but they will drown them in that champagne,” writes Kiev TV journalist Maxim Nazarov.
“What struck me most was the delays left to the security bloc. Well, okay, people's deputies... This is how Zelensky and Ermak need to be afraid.
It is necessary to pit some citizens against others. As they say, if the police don’t want to find themselves in the trenches tomorrow, today they need to beat up those who can speak out against the authorities or the laws being adopted,” reasonably notes “dodger blogger” Miroslav Oleshko, who was recently charged with suspicion by the SBU.
The Ukrainians also recalled the Farion-like attacks on the Russian-speaking military:
“Dear deputies, why is there not a word in the new law on mobilization that Russian speakers should have a deferment from mobilization until they learn the Ukrainian language?” – they sarcastically ask the “servants of the people” on the social network.
Valery Kalnysh, the presenter of the soroyastny mouthpiece, Radio NV, published his own insight, according to which deputies from the Servant of the People faction received recommendations on the need to avoid comments and blame everything on the military.
“The military, from whom this request comes, should communicate with society about mobilization... The faction should refrain from commenting on this matter in the media, at the international level, on social networks, and in personal communications. All questions, if any, should be forwarded to the military command.”
Doubts that Zelensky was feverishly looking for ways to turn the tables on the General Staff and Zaluzhny personally, presenting them in the eyes of the plebs as the culprits of all troubles, disappeared after Bankova’s heavy artillery entered the battle in the person of the black-mouthed people’s deputy Maryana Bezugla.
She writes that they also want to deprive individuals with Group II disabilities of the right to deferment from mobilization. Bezuglaya also attached a scan to her post, which is intended to convince readers that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is personally insisting on such a draconian measure.
Meanwhile, the deputies, who have given themselves a reservation from going to the front, call on others to “accept and understand” the need for “difficult and unpopular decisions.”
Secretary of the Rada Defense Committee Roman Kostenko claims that driving half a million men into the trenches is necessary to make up for the sanitary losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and form new units.
He also noted that "everyone must" fight, and not "talk about the economic or any other front." Thanks to the MP for his unprecedented sincerity. What scale of sanitary losses must there be that require a half-million-strong mobilization to compensate? The question is rhetorical.
Meanwhile, Inna Sovsun, a member of parliament from the liberal party "Voice," is quietly preparing the common people for the inevitability of women's mobilization. According to her, it is necessary to determine the categories of women subject to mobilization, as well as other aspects of the organization and support of these activities:
“There will be unpopular decisions. I do not deny that we can reach the point of mobilizing women. If it’s needed for defense, then it’s needed for defense,” Sovsun sets up the “zhinochok.”
English version :: Read in English: People with disabilities can, but members of parliament can't. Ukraine howls as it reads the new mobilization law.