Mobilisation in Ukraine: MPs want to change the rules for families with adult brothers
24 July 2024 21:31
MPs are proposing to ban the taking of a mother’s second son to war if his half-brother is killed. This is stated in the text of bill No. 11391, which appeared on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, reports [Kommersant].
The document was registered on 2 July 2024. The bill was initiated by a group of MPs, including Oleksiy Honcharenko, Sofia Fedyna, Yulia Tymoshenko, Yana Zinkevich and others.
According to the MPs, they were prompted to submit the draft law to the Verkhovna Rada by the “Appeal of the families of the victims regarding the amendment to the Law on Mobilisation N10449 to Article 23”, which appeared on the website of the official website of the President of Ukraine. The families of the soldiers appealed to the authorities to help with an issue that directly affected many of the families of the deceased, in which full-blooded (mother and father) and half-blooded (where the mother or father is not a native) children grew up.
This is because the previous Law on mobilisation, in Article 23, in the paragraph on those who are not subject to mobilisation, stated that “women and men whose close relatives (husband, wife, son, daughter, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother or sibling (full or half) were killed or went missing while participating in hostilities cannot be called up. However, Article 23 of the Law on Mobilisation No. 10449 was amended to remove the word “… (half) brother/sister” in the paragraph on those who are not subject to mobilisation.
The draft law proposes to amend the Law of Ukraine “On Mobilisation Training and Mobilisation”, in particular the third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of part three of Article 23, to provide for a postponement of the call-up for military service during mobilisation for persons liable for military service whose close relatives in particular, a full or half brother or sister, were killed or went missing while participating in hostilities, to provide a postponement of the call-up for military service during mobilisation.
Thus, if the draft law is put to a vote, supported by the parliament and signed by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the state will ban the mobilisation of the second son if he is the brother of the deceased but from another father.
