775 convicts have already entered the service in the Armed Forces

Mobilization of convicts, illustrative photo

Ukrainian courts granted 1,843 requests for parole for military service. Currently, 775 convicts have already joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This was reported in the Prosecutor General's Office.

It is indicated that another 2,402 petitions of convicts have been submitted to the court, which must be considered by the courts.

the Prosecutor General's Office noted that the majority of convicts serving sentences in institutions in Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Dnipropetrovsk regions wanted to serve in the Armed Forces.

We will remind you that a draft law was submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which proposes to allow prisoners to be released from serving their sentences in case of military service.

The spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, Dmytro Lazutkin, said that convicted Ukrainians who will be mobilized into the army will serve in special units. However, the decision on mobilization will depend not only on the composition of the crime and the conclusion of the medical examination.

It was also reported that the potential mobilization resource among prisoners in Ukraine is 15-20 thousand people.