The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that diabetes and cardiovascular diseases will not be included in the list of diseases that are the basis of exemption from military service. We are also talking about citizens called as part of partial mobilization, he writes. interfax.
“We do not plan to expand this list,” Alexander Sergoventsev, deputy head of the main military medical department of the Ministry of Defense, said at the meeting of the coordination council of human rights commissioners. He added that if diabetes is included, hypertension would need to be included in the relevant list.
“We will introduce hypertension, we will introduce coronary disease. We will come to a point where not a single soldier will be left, as everyone has chronic diseases, ”said Sergoventsev.
He stated that it was a government decree and that it had to be followed.
It is emphasized that the area is regulated by Federal Law No. 31 of 1997, Government Decree No. 852 of 2006 and Presidential Decree on partial mobilization.
Sergoventsev recalled that “there are clearly three categories of non-serving – this is criminal prosecution, the age limit is 65, and (by category) “D” recognition – ineligible for military service.”
Previously, government commission on legislative activity did not support a bill recommending that all entrepreneurs be given a deferral from mobilization. The government said there were already many grounds for granting a delay and the initiative was “unnecessary”.
“New people” want the document to be accepted. At the end of last year, more than 27,000 entrepreneurs and only 1,300 officials were mobilized in the country, according to Vladislav Davankov, the first vice president of the New People group. He emphasized that those who create jobs are entrepreneurs.
On the other hand, due to the heavy losses in the professional units of Ukraine, sent Mobilized to Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) without training.
Source: Gazeta
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