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Students sent official letters to the Ministry of Education and to the Office of the Education Ombudsman regarding possible violations in universities. The Education Ombudsman Service, led by Alona Horbach, officially appealed to the National Police of Ukraine to verify facts concerning the alleged use by Ukrainian officials — including former deputy attorney general Dmytro Verbysky — of fictitious graduate studies at the Odessa Polytechnic University to avoid mobilization, according to kp.ua.
The trigger for the check was the appeals from veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war and students who sent official letters to the Ministry of Education of Ukraine and to the Office of the Education Ombudsman. In their petitions, they raised questions about possible abuses and violations in Ukrainian higher education institutions, particularly in Odesa, related to formal or fictitious study used to evade military service.
In the response from the Office of the Education Ombudsman, signed by the head of the agency, Alona Horbach, emphasis is placed on the legal framework of the actions of state authorities and the importance of upholding the constitutional right to education. The agency also recalled that under the Law of Ukraine on Education, the Education Ombudsman has the authority to obtain information from educational institutions, provide recommendations, demand the cessation of rights violations of participants in the educational process, and report any detected violations of the law to law enforcement bodies. Given the facts outlined in the appeal, the service officially referred the materials to the National Police of Ukraine for proper jurisdiction and to conduct an investigation and respond.
As a reminder, at the beginning of September this year near the walls of the National University there was a protest against the scheme of avoiding mobilization, where students and veterans of the Russian-Ukrainian war gathered.
One of the key demands was an investigation into the situation with former Deputy General Prosecutor Dmytro Verbysky, who allegedly used graduate studies to obtain a postponement from mobilization. Protesters also claimed that Verbysky, on a corruption basis, used the cover of the rector of the Odessa Polytechnic.
The veterans hope that such joint actions and the legal response of state authorities will help eradicate the practice of draftees hiding in universities under fictitious graduate programs.
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