Ukrainians recognized by the decision of the People's Liberation Army as limited fit for military service during martial law are subject to mobilization. After the changes to the mobilization rules, in Ukraine, the status of limited suitability was removed from some normative legal acts.
Prior to the entry into force of the new mobilization rules from May 18, 2024, on April 26, the director of the health care department of the Ministry of Defense, Oksana Sukhorukova, clarified that the department has developed new degrees of fitness for military service, which will be used by doctors of the VLK.
Changes in accordance with the provisions entered into force in Ukraine on May 4, 2024 of Law No. 3621-IX, according to which the status of limited fitness is excluded from the Law on Military Duty and Military Service, in particular from Article 14, which regulates the issue of registration of citizens of Ukraine to conscription stations, and from Article 26, which defines the grounds for dismissal from military service.
The amended law also requires all those with limited fitness to be retested to determine their eligibility under the new rules. This must be done within nine months from the date of entry into force of this law, i.e. from May 4.
The VLK makes the following new decisions about fitness for service:
1) suitable;
- to military service;
- to military service under a contract;
- to serve in the military reserve;
- to prepare for participation in the Military Academy;
- to participate in the Ministry of Defense;
- to service (work) in the national staff;
- for service on submarines, on surface ships, in the marines, amphibious assault troops, special facilities, special purpose units;
2) suitable for service in military support units, TCC, VVNIZ, educational centers, institutions (institutions), medical units, units of logistics, communication, operational support, security;. Such persons are unfit for service in special purpose units, on submarines, surface ships, and in special constructions.
3) temporarily unfit for review (6-12 months);
4) suitable/unsuitable for certain specialties:
- to training (service) in a specialty... The resolution is adopted regarding persons who are selected for training, military service in certain military specialties specified in the Labor Code);
- to serve as a diver at a depth of up to meters, a deep-sea diver at a depth of up to meters, an aquanaut at a depth of up to meters;
- to study in the educational part in the specialty of diver, deep-sea diver, aquanaut;
- to work with DIV, CRP, sources of EMF, LV, microorganisms of I-II pathogenicity groups, especially dangerous infectious diseases;
- to underwater driving of tanks; to studying at the VVNIZ;
5) needs:
- leave for treatment;
- treatment in a medical institution, transfer to another institution;
- long-term treatment;
- prosthesis;
- exemption from duties for a term, etc.;
6) temporarily unsuitable for the types of service specified by the VLK;
Conscripts with limited fitness as a result of passing through the VLK may be declared fit or unfit for service under the new rules provided for in Order 402.
According to the new approaches and classification of diseases, they can either be recognized as unfit for service, or fit for certain types of service - according to the level of impairment of functions due to the disease for which they were recognized as limited service and the criteria for which are indicated in the Schedule of Diseases and its comments .
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