Record at 17, for service in 18: all the new law on military accounting and medical examination of conscripts

4197-II "On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine" On Military Duty and Military Service "on the peculiarities of taking citizens of Ukraine for military records of conscripts and their medical examination during their passing Basic general training. " After all, new norms have already come into force. What will now look like the procedure for taking citizens for military registration and other changes are provided by law, explains the focus of the expert of NGO "Legal Hundred" Julia means.

From now on, every year from January 1 to July 31, men who are 17 years old this year are taken to military records The JV is recognized in a timely manner: citizens who have not been registered in time are registered only after personal arrival in the shopping center and JV. An important change is the cancellation of the commission on military records of conscripts and initial medical examination.

Instead, medical examination will be mandatory immediately before referring to the basic military service and before the start of practical training in basic general military training, which has been implemented in higher education institutions since 2025. From now on, the commission on submission for military service will consist of: Also, district (city) commissions on sending for military service will be submitted to the commissions of a higher level of request for deferral by this law.

This means that such district (city) commissions will have the right to independently determine the grounds that can be considered a deferral, and higher -level commissions - to consider such grounds and to give them deferrals.

The Main Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine stated that there is a risk that these commissions would apply an unequal approach to consideration of these issues for different categories of citizens, and therefore such a mechanism for providing deferrals on grounds not provided for by this Law will not ensure protection Persons in the case of arbitrary intervention of state authorities in its rights and freedom and equality before the law.

In turn, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti -Corruption Policy called the corrupt factor that the district (city) commissions were given the right to decide independently who to give a deferral from referral to basic military service, and to determine the grounds for such deferrals, even if they are not provided by law . In addition, changes relate to military accounting. Now the recruits will be taken to men under 25, which in accordance with Art.

14 taken on military registration as well as women who have expressed a desire to undergo basic military service. The military will be recorded: the latter will be eliminated from the military accounting of conscripts. From now on, the military rank of recruit will be, in particular, persons undergoing basic military service before the end of the basic general military training.

In addition, the rule on adding to the military ranks of the officers of the legal, medical and chaplaincy services of the words "Justice", "Medical Service", "Chaplaincy Service" will also extend to the units of administrative and legal activity of the SPSU bodies. Also, contract servicemen who have undergone basic general military training, as well as persons of 18 years of age who have undergone basic general military training, may also be admitted to the contract service.

It is proposed to indicate that the procedure for military service to servicemen who were declared unfit is determined by the normative legal acts of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. And to exclude the rules on approval of the list of positions for such persons. For citizens who have voluntarily arrived in/h for the military service for mobilization, it is established that the day of enrollment in the lists of personnel in/h will be considered the beginning of the service.

"Before sending for practical classes of basic general training, citizens of Ukraine undergo a compulsory medical examination (in accordance with the procedure recognized as part 13 of Article 2). The exception is cadets of military educational institutions/units, in particular those that carry out police training," says the focus of the tool.

During the period of martial law, by the decision of the head of a higher military educational institution or the head of the higher education institution with military training units, the term of military training of Ukrainian citizens under the reserve officers training program may be reduced. "In addition, by March 1, 2025, the possibility of voluntary return of servicemen who left military units or places of service or deserted until November 21, 2024 was continued," the expert recalls.