Corruption to the front: who of the prisoners can replenish the Armed Forces on the initiative of the Ministry of Justice

According to the Minister of Justice Denis Mizusky, first of all, it can be people convicted of corruption. "Corruption, it seems to me that it is absolutely safe to send to fight," the official said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. Masus added that he considers them patriots, "just patriotism is quite peculiar, and they are greedy. " "Well, not only greedy, but let's be frank. We have cultivated corruption for decades . . . Well, this phenomenon was mega -widespread.

Of course, it must be eradicated, but I do not understand why corrupt officials, like others, cannot be sent to war. It is necessary, " - said the Minister of Justice. The theme of mobilization of prisoners is discussed from the beginning of a full -scale invasion. Thoughts on this differ. Some, including the Deputy Commander of the 3rd Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Maxim Zhorin, believe that prisoners could benefit from the front, although they should not count on them in full.

Others are convinced that only those who serve punishment for not serious crimes can be mobilized. There are also those in the army who does not want to deal with previously convicted.

In a conversation with focus, the chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights and the director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group Yevgeny Zakharov notes that in the issue of mobilization of convicts who serve sentences, three components are important: a person committed a non -violent crime; She wants to defend Ukraine; She agrees to do it voluntarily.

In this case, according to Zakharov, to distinguish corrupt officials into a separate group as the most reliable prisoners does not make sense. "It is not necessary to start dividing - these are possible, while others can not. It is possible to mobilize those who have committed nonviolent crimes and those who want to fight for Ukraine against the Russians. It is also important that there is a part that agrees to take such people.

And to understand what It is the crimes that have committed, it does not make sense. The captain of the Armed Forces, military psychologist Andriy Kozinchuk tells focus that there are several convicts in his team. There were no problems with them. Moreover, Kozinchuk notes that for a long time he did not know about the past experience of comrades, because in his unit it is much more important that a person can do for the army here and now, not what he has done before.

"I have a prisoner in the brigade. Three deputies of the brigade commander served the term, one of them for murder, as far as I know. I think that the mobilization of prisoners is an individual question. Because it is not in the past of every fighter, but that What he could be useful of the army. I learned that some of the comrades were in prison only in a year of service. They behaved adequately, there were no rituals from the "zone". But I can only talk about my unit, " - Kozinchuk continues.

According to the military, if the issue with the mobilization of prisoners is resolved at the legislative level, it is best to organize interviews so that each commander decides whether he is ready to take into a part of a specific person. If the prisoner has not worked before the law violated the law, in the army, according to the military, he does nothing, because it is not an educational structure.

But if a person has a motivation, a civil experience that will use the Armed Forces - for example, a convicted manager, a driver - you can work with him. "I know that people with combat experience served in prison. I personally wrote a prisoner: I said that there are those who wanted to defend the country and asked how to get into the army. I honestly replied that I don't know. I think that calling prisoners are a good idea. But there are different prisoners.

For example, if a person is in prison for fraud, he can also find a benefit in the army and implement "schemes" on the same volunteering. Therefore, everything is individual. And a bad idea - Make a general amnesty and send everyone to the front, "Kozinchuk adds. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine Focus reported that in 2022, 363 people were paid by the Presidential Decree. They all expressed a desire to join the Armed Forces. Most of them are the former military.

In particular, from the Tornado Battalion. Zakharov recalls that at the beginning of a full -scale invasion there was an order to interview the prisoners in the pre -trial detention center who is ready to defend the country. The chiefs submitted the lists, but the matter did not go. "At that time, only one colony in which the law enforcement officers who committed the crime, as well as the judges, prosecutors, were allowed to participate in hostilities.

And only because they were occupied and if they were not allowed to fight, they would have spread the colony. Therefore, they made an exception, opened the gate, then part of the prisoners were returned back. But the issue with mobilization globally was never resolved, because the military leadership has a prejudice: those who committed crimes - bad people, but bad people are not a place in the army. But this is a misconception, "Zakharov says.

Kozinchuk considers the idea of ​​organizing individual battalions of prisoners in the event that the parts do not want to accept for themselves, not the best. Even if it is about those who committed nonviolent crimes, such as corrupt officials. "There are concepts such as group dynamics. Every person is an individual, but when he gets into social group, he adapts to the rituals and habits of this group to survive.

Those conditions that are in prison for survival, are very different from those that There is in the army. And since the tasks of units are to perform tasks that can be dangerous, there will be a darkness in the penalties. Zakharov also believes that the penalty is the Soviet rudiment that the Russians actively use. "In Russia" Zecs "are sent to" meat assaults. Which is serving the sentence, does not want to fight - it is not necessary to pick it up, " - adds Zakharov.

We will remind that the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on National Security, Defense and Intelligence there are discussions about the mobilization of prisoners. Deputy Chairman of the Committee Yegor Chernev believes that the initiative can become a "working tool". The Chairman of the Committee Oleksandr Zhitnevich opposed the fact that in the 1950s, the "Didivshchyna" appeared in the army because of the former prisoners who fell into the Armed Forces of the USSR.