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Police tricked a 57-year-old man to bring him to the recruitment center. The citizen still has a deferment for disability until 31 August and has documents that confirm the grounds. However, officials claimed that his disability certificate was supposedly no longer valid.
The man was held at the recruitment center despite an active deferment
A rather absurd situation occurred in Ternopil region, where a person with a disability was illegally taken to the recruitment center on the pretext that he no longer had grounds for a deferment. Police came to his home and stated that the 57-year-old man had allegedly hit someone else’s car, so he now had to go for an examination. However, as lawyer Anastasia Kondras noted, her client was simply taken from his home to be delivered to the recruitment center.
According to an expert, the man has health problems and an active deferment. This month he was planning to undergo a commission that would reassess his condition and, if necessary, extend the disability certificate.
Interestingly, the man had recently been discharged from the hospital, and in the Reserv+ app the deferment had not yet disappeared. But at the recruitment center, where, incidentally, there were already many other mobilized people, the Ukrainian was told that the disability data were outdated.
They did not allow the ambulance onto the premises. They are holding not only my client but also other people whose relatives are standing at the gates,
Anastasia Kondras wrote.
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, reported that the state is doing everything possible to prevent cases of mobilizing sick Ukrainians and people with disabilities. However, in practice the problem has not yet been eliminated.
The detained man’s daughter says he has serious heart diseases; despite this, he was held in the recruitment center, was not given needed medical care, and had no contact with relatives. As a result, after a prolonged stay in the center he was released home at night. But sick men are still being held in inhumane conditions inside the Ternopil recruitment center. According to the lawyer, some of them have already been there for a month, and officials are waiting for their deferments to expire.
The Ternopil recruitment center did not provide an official response to the incident. However, its press service cynically published a video about how to obtain a deferment.
Recall that a health-related deferment can be granted for a period from 6 to 12 months, or indefinitely for certain diagnoses.
People with disabilities are not subject to conscription during martial law, but they can lose their deferment if they do not obtain or renew it.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Забрали з дому "через ДТП": у Тернополі хворого чоловіка добу незаконно утримували в ТЦК". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
