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a court Ukrainian On Wednesday, he ordered the release of the first detainees who volunteered to fight in the army, under a new law that aims to mobilize more soldiers to fight the invasion. Russian.
According to Ukrainian authorities, more than 3,000 detainees have expressed their willingness to join the army in exchange for their release.
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A court in the city of Khmelnitskyin the west of the country, indicated that it approved on Tuesday the release of two of them, a man born in 2000 and another in 1981, both convicted of robbery, to join the National guard in Ukraine.
“The court granted their requests and ordered the Khmelnytsky detention center to immediately release the men from their sentences to perform contractual military service.”, he declared in a statement published on Wednesday.
“Each man is fit for military service, has passed a professional and psychological examination and has a sufficient level of physical fitness.“, added the court, which is currently studying fifty similar requests.
At the beginning of May, Ukrainian deputies approved a law, signed immediately afterwards by the president Volodimir Zelenskywhich allows the recruitment of certain categories of prisoners by the army in exchange for an amnesty.
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The measure does not apply to convictions for serious crimes, such as homicide, sexual violence or attacks on national security.
In Russiahe Wagner paramilitary group As of 2022, it has recruited tens of thousands of inmates from Russian prisons, who have died in extremely bloody attacks, including during the Battle of Bakhmut.
The director of the Ukrainian NGO “Prisoner protection in Ukraine”, Oleg Tsvilihe told AFP in May that he feared Ukrainian detainees would suffer the same fate.
Source: Elcomercio
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