On Wednesday, the Ukrainian parliament finally approved a law that allows the mobilization of prisoners convicted of minor crimes. If the convicts join the fight to defend the country from Russian aggression, they will be paroled from prison, Ukrinform reported. The standard should help replenish Ukrainian troops and replace soldiers exhausted after two years of fighting against the Russian invasion army, Reuters reported.
“Persons convicted of premeditated murder, rape, sexual violence and crimes against national security will not be mobilized,” lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said on the Telegram platform. His colleague Jaroslav Železňak said on the same network that 279 deputies supported the norm and that no one was against it.
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The law assumes that in times of mobilization or a state of war, the courts will be able to conditionally release prisoners to perform military service on the basis of a contract, the Ukrainska Pravda server wrote earlier. Today, the Verkhovna Rada, i.e. the Ukrainian parliament, also approved the extension of the mobilization for another 90 days, that is until August 11. It also extended martial law. According to Železňak, this has happened for the eleventh time. Immediately after Russian troops invaded the country on February 24, 2022, many Ukrainians voluntarily joined the army to defend their homeland. However, after two years of war, queues are no longer formed in front of military centers and many men rather try to avoid fighting, the Reuters agency wrote earlier. Neither side of the conflict officially publishes its military losses. But estimates speak of high losses on both sides of the front line.
