Fitness or unfitness for military service is determined by the Military Qualification Commission, not the disability group - Zaluzhny
Kyiv • UNN
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhnyi, emphasizes that fitness for military service is determined by a military commission, not by disability status. The armed forces seek to recruit only those who are physically capable of fighting.
Commander-in-Chief of the of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, said that the Armed Forces want the army to be was replenished with people who are physically fit to fight, but fitness or unfitness for military service is determined by the military qualification commission, not by the disability group. disability group. He said this on the air of a telethon, a correspondent of UNN reports.
I believe that today the treatment of the degree of disability of the second or third group is not relevant, because it is not the disability that a person has that decides whether he or she is fit for military service, but the military medical commission that determines whether a person is fit for military service or not
He noted that the draft law on mobilization in the Armed Forces agreed that it was necessary to get rid of of the concept of limited fitness.
In that draft law, we agreed with the notion that it is necessary to leave two concepts in our legislation: a person who is fit for military service and a person who is unfit for military service. We should get rid of such a concept as limitedly fit. When we answer these questions - fit or not fit - we will understand whether it makes sense to continue to operate with such concepts as disabled of the second or third group
The Commander-in-Chief said that the Armed Forces want the army to be replenished with people who are physically capable of fighting. physical characteristics can fight.
We have absolute respect for those people who are in a civilian environment, and we want the army to be replenished with people who are physically capable of fighting. But all this will be decided by the Military Qualification Commission, which currently has the following authority
Addendum
The Cabinet of Ministers has submitted to the to the Verkhovna Rada to improve certain issues of mobilization, military registration and military service.
In particular, it provides for provides for exclusion from the list of conclusions of military medical commissions conclusions on limited fitness for military service.
