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The Verkhovna Rada has received a draft law which provides for granting a deferral from military service in the Armed Forces to men who are raising their children alone. The author of the document, parliamentarian Oleksii Honcharenko, reported this.
“I submitted the corresponding bill to the Verkhovna Rada. The document states that single fathers who raise a child by themselves and have a court decision determining the child’s place of residence with the father are granted the right to a deferral. We have already seen shameful cases where men raise the child alone, have a court decision stating that they are raising the child themselves, but are mobilized while the child is left to fend for themselves,” Honcharenko said.
Thus, lawmakers propose adding to the list of documents confirming the right to a deferral a court decision determining the child’s place of residence with the father. Currently, such a clause does not exist in Government Resolution No. 560 – and this creates a legal trap for thousands of men.
At present, the status of a single father can be confirmed only with four documents: a death certificate of the mother, a court decision depriving her of parental rights, a court decision recognizing the mother as missing or deceased, and a court decision establishing the fact of the father’s independent upbringing and maintenance of the child.
A court decision on determining the child’s place of residence with the father—separate from the fact of independent upbringing—is not included in this list. It is precisely this gap that leads to situations where a father is effectively raising the child, holds a court ruling, but the TCC (territorial recruitment center) refuses a deferral. The document No. 15530 states that the court may determine that the father provides the child with proper living conditions, daily care, upbringing, and maintenance, while the mother does not participate in the child’s life. However, without a direct reference to the “fact of independent upbringing” in the court decision, the TCC does not recognize it as a basis for deferral. After the law is enacted, such situations should be eliminated.
25 August in the Rada, it was stated that women are not mobilized in Ukraine. Corresponding measures are not being prepared or considered.
24 August, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Roman Kostenko stated that in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine they are discussing lowering the mobilization age to 50–55 years.
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