The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced this Sunday modification of the legislation for recruitment in times of the war against russiaby which the exemptions are significantly reduced, which will no longer be able to request the patients who are diagnosed with mild mental disorders and other illnessesreported the local press.
From now on, people with “mild and brief manifestations of mental disorders, neurotic or stress-related disorders”according to the Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
People with diseases of the central nervous system that progress slowly with minor functional impairments, with episodic disorders and paroxysmal except epilepsy, or with minor deficiencies of organ and system functions.
The order also establishes that the recruits with clinically cured tuberculosis and residual sequelae, asymptomatic carriers of HIV (to be determined individually in these cases) and other people with slowly progressing diseases, with minor disorders of the endocrine system functions or with minor disorders of eating behavior or metabolism.
Dismissal of the Minister of Defense
The announcement came the same day that President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the dismissal of the defense minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, in order to give “a new focus” to the portfolio, a year and a half after the start of the Russian invasion.
“I have decided to replace the defense minister of Ukraine,” Zelensk saidi in your daily message.
“Oleksiy Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war, I think the ministry needs a new approach and other forms of interaction both with the military and with society in general,” he added.
In turn, the president appointed Rustem Umerov as the new head of the Defense portfolio.
Umerov, 41-year-old former Crimean Tatar lawmaker, has headed the State Property Fund of Ukraine since September 2022, for the privatization of public companies.
It has also played a role in the sensitive war negotiations on, for example, the Black Sea Grain Agreement.
Source: Ambito
