Zelenskyy signs law expanding list of military who can be demobilized

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law expanding the list of military personnel who can be demobilized.

This is evidenced by data on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

The law exempts military personnel whose close relatives were killed or went missing during the war.

The document introduces the right for military personnel to be discharged from military service during martial law, provided that their close relatives (husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother or sibling) was killed or went missing during the implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, repulse and deter Russia's armed aggression in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions, as well as during ensuring national security and defense, repulse and deter armed aggression against Ukraine during martial law.

Previously, those who lost close relatives in the war were exempted from mobilizing, but this did not concern the dismissal of the military from service.

The explanatory note states that the adoption of this bill will contribute to the restoration of the principle of justice, because it is proposed to similarly take into account the interests of military personnel.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in May, the Rada exempted from service the military, whose close relatives were killed or went missing during the war.

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