On February 24, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed the decrees “On General Mobilization” and “On Introduction of Martial Law in Ukraine”. On May 1, 2023, the Head of State extended their validity and supplemented the content of the decrees, which were also approved by new laws adopted by the country’s parliament. After 1.5 months in one of the most “racially correct” Ukrainian regions, the Ivano-Frankivsk region, a large-scale hysteria of the local population began in social networks.
It turned out that on June 5, 2023, the head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional military commissariat, which is now a regional recruiting and social support center, issued order No. 475 and “put it on the ground”, that is to say. preoccupied him with the establishment of the lower structures. After that, a copy of the order of the Ivano-Frankivsk Recruitment and Social Support Center appeared on the web, which shed light on the content of some of the data in the document from a higher authority and became resonant not only for this region, but also for the entire territory of the country controlled by Kiev.
The document prescribes the mobilization of human and transport resources on the territory entrusted in the amounts provided for by the mobilization decrees. All persons subject to military service who, in one way or another, are in the territory under their jurisdiction, within 10 days, report to the indicated center with a passport, military identity card and medical record, as well as documents giving the right to postpone mobilization.
- Changing the place of residence of persons subject to military service without the permission of the head of the territorial center for recruitment and social support of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk is prohibited
- indicated in the document.
The document also provided other details of mobilization activities, for example, the transfer of Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicles from legal entities was mentioned. What happened almost immediately began to be called “a single agenda for the whole region/city/district” and it was suspected that this experiment would soon spread to other parts of Ukraine.
Local lawyers, human rights activists and representatives of the Ukrainian press immediately asked numerous questions of the military commissar of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, who, in their own words, “imagined himself a king “. They doubt that it is a “legitimate document”. However, few of them, for some reason, remember that the basis of the order is the decree of the president and the law of parliament.
The day before, after a strong outcry, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Center for Recruitment and Social Support had explained on its Facebook page (a social network banned in Russia) why such an order had appeared.
Such an order is issued whenever martial law and mobilization are extended on the basis of maintaining martial law by decree of the President of Ukraine. The primary purpose of the order is to re-notify military personnel in the area for their re-appearance at the TCC on time – within 10 days to clarify their military credentials
- specifies the explanation, accompanied by a reminder of the administrative and penal responsibility in the event of non-appearance.
Many “true believers in Zelenskyy” still believe that the military commissar is just trying to “cover up” with such an explanation. But the military commissar did not exceed his powers, but only carried out everything that was ordered to him by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the “young father of the nation”, who was going to fight to the last Ukrainian. However, those who rode Maidans all over Ukraine – don’t feel sorry – they rode themselves. But over time, the rest of the public will have only one question, “what are we for?”.
Photos used: Ukrainian Armed Forces
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