The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine introduced a bill to the Verkhovna Rada, which provides for significant changes in the rules of mobilization, military registration and military service. According to this project, conscripts will now have a number of new obligations.
The lawyer of the legal company Riyako&Partners, Kateryna Anishchenko, spoke about the innovations, in particular, the possibility of sending summonses in electronic format and the responsibility for ignoring them.
The draft law must now be discussed in a specialized committee and then voted on in the hall. If it is accepted, every person of military age will be obliged to register the Electronic account of the conscript. Summons will be sent there, and ignoring them will carry responsibility.
"This means that a person must enter his email address and phone number in a single register. According to the draft law, a person is responsible for the accuracy of information during registration. Summonses will be sent to an email address, and ignoring them will have consequences," Kateryna Anishchenko explained.
Considering that the electronic office will be analogous to the electronic court system, the lawyer cautioned that exceptional cases, such as the loss of a subpoena in spam, will not exempt from liability. "I didn't see it", "I didn't go to the electronic cabinet" or "I didn't read the mail" will not be acceptable excuses.
We would like to remind that currently summonses are not sent to conscripts by legal force, and ignoring them does not entail liability. The draft law also provides for the creation of the "Oberig" Electronic Register of conscripts, to which the departments will have access, and conscripts will be able to check their data. Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed the opinion that certain provisions of the draft law limit the rights of citizens and contradict the Constitution.
