Military registration for men abroad: Vereshchuk announced changes
19 March 2025 00:23
Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Iryna Vereshchuk spoke about the upcoming changes to the military registration of Ukrainian citizens abroad. Vereshchuk wrote about this on Facebook, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
“I held an interagency working meeting on the military registration of our citizens abroad,” the deputy wrote.
According to Vereshchuk, the Ministry of Defense will submit a draft resolution within a week: citizens aged 18 to 60 who are abroad will be able to register for military service without visiting a military registration and enlistment office.
Currently, citizens aged 18 to 25 can register for military service abroad without these criteria.
It should be noted that the Verkhovna Rada has amended the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses and improved the mechanism for bringing persons to administrative responsibility for violating the rules of military registration and legislation on defense, mobilization training and mobilization.
By the way, this law proposes a number of other innovations that are unlikely to appeal to Ukrainians who avoid visiting the MCC and JVs. Kommersant Ukrainsky analyzed in detail what pitfalls the document contains.
Fines from the TCC can be paid online
The day before, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Kateryna Chernogorenko explained that the fine for untimely updated data can be paid through the Reserve application.
Ukrainian citizens abroad will also be able to pay the fine for unupdated data online, and this, according to the Deputy Defense Minister, will allow Ukrainians to return home without violations.
For military personnel, fines for such violations will be completely canceled.
What fines can be imposed in the CCP
The obligations of citizens, for failure to fulfill which they face a fine, are specified in Government Resolution No. 1487, and according to it, fines may be imposed for
- failure to update data (if it cannot be obtained from state registers)
- failure to register for military service (including women medics and young men aged 17);
- damage or loss of military registration documents;
- refusal to undergo the VLC;
- failure to notify the MCC of relocation, employment and other changes in personal data;
- failure to appear upon summons (in this case, a registered letter with a summons is considered delivered even if the conscript did not receive it personally).
Fines for failure to appear under a call-up are imposed even if the person who received the call-up has a deferral from mobilization or a disability.
Amount of fines for failure to appear in the MCC:
uAH 17,000 to 25,500 for citizens;
uAH 34,000 to 59,000 for officials and legal entities.
If you do not pay the amount immediately, the fine will be transferred to the executive service and doubled.
How to find out if a fine has been imposed
This can be done using several services:
Opendatabot. It allows you to find out whether an enforcement case has been opened against a person. The service is paid.
Action. You can find out about unpaid fines in the section “Services” – “Taking action on fines for violation of the rules of military registration”.
Unified register of debtors. Here you can also check for unpaid fines. The service is free of charge.
Ukrainians are not in a hurry to pay fines from the Tax and Customs Committee
Since the beginning of the year, about 10 thousand proceedings for unpaid fines have already been opened – almost as many as for the entire year of 2023. Such data is provided by the Opendatabot service. Kommersant Ukrainian reported on this.
This year, the most active TCCs are fining Ukrainians in Dnipropetrovs’k region (1,053 proceedings), Kyiv (1,003) and Poltava (916). Almost half of the overdue fines this year were issued to Ukrainians aged 25-35. Another 38% of the proceedings are for people aged 36-45.
