"There are several mechanisms": People's Deputy explained how to mobilize convicts in the Armed Forces (video)

People's Deputy Roman Kostenko stated that at the beginning of the war the state had already released prisoners who participated in hostilities. If a person has already been convicted, they can be mobilized through amnesty. The new mobilization law provides for several mechanisms that will help mobilize the prisoners in the defense forces. Roman Kostenko, the secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, told this in an interview with Radio NV.

According to him, if a person has already been convicted, they can be mobilized through amnesty. However, if she is only in a pre -trial detention center, she will be changed by a precautionary measure to a personal obligation to go to the front. Kostenko stated that at the beginning of the war the state had already released the prisoners who participated in the fighting. However, as the People's Deputy noted, many convicts will not work into the army.

"I will say immediately that we do not hope that we will have hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Russia as soon On (the number, - ed. ) Up to 10 thousand servicemen. We will remind, the chairman of the "servant of the people" party Elena Shuliak reported that the convicts will be able to serve in the positions of officers and sergeants. According to her, not only a convicted citizen, but also a special unit commander, will have to provide his personal consent for mobilization.