βOver the past two weeks, more than 1,700 servicemen who have previously left the place of service have returned to their units or are at the return stage. The simplified order is valid until August 30.β, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: Director of the State Bureau of Investigation Alexei Sukhachev in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency
Direct Language: “We held a joint meeting with the National Person, the Command of the Land Forces, the Military Law Enforcement Service, and clarified the elements of interaction for assistance to military personnel who, due to circumstances, left part of them, return to our units.
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Details: According to Sukhachev, over the last two weeks, more than 1700 servicemen have already returned to their units or are in the process of returning. Some of them turned directly to the DBR through an online form published last week.
He recalled that the military has a few more days to use the simplified return procedure – it is valid until August 30.
Prehistory:
- On March 1, the term of rapid return to the service of the military who left the military unit or place of service.
- In the period from November 29, 2024 to March 1, 2025, according to the DBR, nearly 21 thousand 100 servicemen returned to the service.
- Members of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, together with the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense, have developed a bill that stipulates that military service will not be suspended during the HCP or desertion.
- In August 2025, the Director of the State Bureau of Investigation Alexei Sukhachev in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine reported that over the 8 months of a simplified mechanism of return to the service of those who first left part of (HSF), more than 29 thousand Ukrainian servicemen returned to the Armed Forces.
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