New discussion about women's military accounting. Is it true that the military will not be able to travel abroad from October 1 and what can change?

With the approach of October 1 and after the resonant statement of the lawyer of the Defense Ministry, Vladimir Smilka, a discussion was erupted in Ukraine again who should be on military account and whether they can go abroad. NV has tried to understand the position of the Ministry of Defense and explains why the rules for conscripted women from October 1, 2022 are not yet final as they may change and what it depends on.

Video day is about the military registration of women 14 specialties (listed below at the end of this material) in accordance with the Order of the Ministry of Defense No. 313 - however, the Ministry proposes to significantly reduce this list, leaving only three of them.

On Sunday, September 4, the lawyer of the Ministry of Defense Volodymyr Smilka (the head of the southeastern territorial legal department) at the request of the public once again clarified the rules for conscripted women who will come into force on October 1, 2022.

It was in this comment that Smilka stated that it was that Smilka stated that The conscripts "apply the same restrictions on men as men: in particular, they cannot go abroad during martial law" (in a reporting, these words of a lawyer are told by a journalist in the public indirect language).

Although Smilka does not mention it, apparently, it is about those women of the relevant specialties who have already been on military accounting - since previously the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov explained that by the time the woman was registered, they were not military. "The conscript person becomes only after the military registration," Reznikov said in the winter before the invasion of the Russian Federation.

-No normative legal act provides for penalties for women who are registered as a military. That is, once again: women become conscripted only after they are on military registration and by the time they are registered. ” Volodymyr Smilka also provided other important explanations for women on military registration from October 1, 2022. Here are the main ones. Military accounting is not a mobilization.

This means that women of the relevant specialties should be registered, but will not be mobilized immediately to perform tasks that need the Armed Forces. The procedure and documents required for registration are in line with the rules for men. “Every woman who graduates from an educational institution in the relevant specialty has received a specialty. By this specialty, if provided in the order, it is obliged to appear in the territorial assembly center for registration.

If a woman works in such a specialty but does not have appropriate education, she can also be sent by the employer for military registration, ”he said. According to Smilka, women have to collect the necessary documents and contact their enterprise manager or bring them to the territorial centers of staffing.

The list of documents necessary for the capture of women on military accounting: there will be no female for failure to comply with the order by the end of the year, Vladimir Smilka assured. At the same time, the Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar, commenting on new statements by Vladimra Smilka, called "such that is not true" information that on October 1, women whose professions are in the list of military accounting specialties "All have to be registered ”.

“The fact is that this rule was delayed for a year - you remember that last fall certain rules of law have come into force last fall. As of today, the situation is: until October 1 it is delay, it [norm] does not work at all, and by October 1 there is already a work, and we are doing everything possible to ensure that from October 1, no mandatory registration is not recorded It was, ”said the painter on the national telephone on September 5.

On September 4, after a resonant comment by Vladimir Smilka, which was picked up by Ukrainian media, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar published additional clarifications about women's military registration from October 1, 2022. She called on the press "not to spread fakes about military registration of women" and reminded of possible changes In these Rules, which proposes to approve the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to the painter, the Ministry of Defense developed and submitted to the Verkhovna Rada proposals of changes to the Law of Ukraine on military duty and military service on voluntary registration for military registration of women. The Ministry works on the bill with the profile parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence. “We have repeatedly stated that the production of women on military registration is established by law.

Therefore, the Defense Ministry and the General Staff cannot change it on their own. This is the powers of parliament. If changes are made - the Defense Ministry and the General Staff will be fulfilled, ”the painter emphasized. She also reminded that since 2014, no woman has been forced to the front - only with her consent.

In her Facebook post and in his comments in a discussion with the People's Deputy Mariana Bezugar (Servant of the People), Anna Malyar explained what changes the Ministry of Defense insisted on. Reduce to three list of specialties, after which women must be on military registration.

In this case, these will be specialists in the fields: “The experience of deploying all military units of the Armed Forces and other military units to full states of wartime shows that today there is no urgent need to significantly increase the number of women in military accounting in the state,” Malyar said. - At the same time, there is a need for specialists and specialists of medicine, radio engineering, food technologies for the Armed Forces.

" Therefore, if the amendments to the said law, the General Staff of the Armed Forces, in turn, will develop changes to the list of military accounting specialties for women and will reduce this list to optimal need, the painter explained. Make military registration voluntary for the rest of the specialties.

Thus, the painter explained, it will be possible to "allow the most motivated women to voluntarily register in other military accounting specialties, which are also needed, simply not as acute as three of these. " According to her, about a thousand women who have voluntarily registered at the Armed Forces.

"And they can not be granted this right, as in those who will be motivated in the future voluntarily for registration in other military accounting specialties, not just for the three most sought after,"-explained Anna Malyar. The law on military duty and military service and the related order of the Ministry of Defense No.

313 (on approval of the list of specialties and/or professions related to the relevant military-accounting specialties, after which women are taken to military registration of military registration will remain in force. 'and the list of specialties and/or professions related to the relevant military-accounting specialties). That is, if no changes are made until October 1, 2022, the rules about 14 specialties described above will remain valid.

Anna Malyar separately emphasized that the Defense Ministry does not see the point in delaying her order No. 313, but insists on changes in the law. "If you leave the law as is and delay the registration for a year, then we have an uncertainty for women and a mandatory principle of registration," she stressed. It all depends on what changes to the law will make (or will not make) parliament, the painter again emphasized.

“In the General Staff there is no need to increase the number of women on registration - the General Staff has repeatedly stated this […]. Our actions - the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces depend directly on the law. If the changes are taken, this is one algorithm of action, if not taken - another.

But the position of the General Staff is already mentioned: in addition to the three specialties highlighted by the General Staff, there is no need to increase accounting now, ”the Deputy Minister of Defense emphasized. People's Deputy Maryan Bezugla (a servant of the people) in comments to the publication of Anna Malyar on Facebook stated that there were no proposals in the form of a bill from the Ministry of Defense. “The question is withdrawn from the agenda.

Parliament in 2022 will not consider this issue, because the list, dates, traveling abroad - everything is regulated at the Cabinet level, not by laws, ”Bezugla said. According to her, the relevant changes to the rules for conscripts should also be made by the Government: if you consider the order of the Ministry of Defense No. 313 (with appropriate changes that reduced the list of professions for compulsory military accounting of women conscript age, 18-60 years), 18-60 years.