The law guarantees preservation of average amount of income for all the period of military service and establishes responsibility for those employers that violate it. Effectiveness of the law directly depends on determination of soldiers to assert their rights. The Legal Space team helps with it. The lawyer of Kherson Regional Charity and Health Foundation Volodymyr Orlovsky told the journalist of Deutsche Welle Galyna Stadnik about experience of protection of the rights of mobilized citizens.

The resident of Kherson Mykola Karanfil learned to treat his debts responsibly. Instead of 600 borrowed hryvnias, collectors demanded him to return 8 thousand UAH. Only the intervention of a lawyer of the Information Resource Centre "Legal Space" helped reduce the payment sum to 2600 UAH.

Until recently servicemen mobilized repeatedly lost money due to the imperfect law. People received compensations at a rate of their average wages that were lower than during the first call-up. At the end of July this shortcoming was eliminated at the state level. The following consultation will provide more details about the above changes.

Soldiers, ATO participants and members of their families started asking for free legal consultations on leave connected with different life situations. Right to rest and order of granting leave of absence to those who protect our country as well as to all the other Ukrainians is written in Constitution and in legislation.

How will draft of reservists from military operative reserve be conducted? How will their labor rights be protected?

Mobilization at any costs? Officials from military commission tried to illegally mobilize a man from Kovel who looks after old grandmother.

Famous human rights activists – the executive director of Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Arkadiy Bushchenko and the director of Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group Yevgen Zakharov – told about their attitude towards anticorruption legislation and threats to human rights due to mobilization.

A young student from Luhansk region was nearly mobilized by a biased military commissioner. Indeed, accordingly to Ukrainian legislation, students are exempt from mobilization. Fraudulent activity was recognized by local Community Law Center in Rubizhne.

State aid to families of those police officers who were killed in ATO will be increased from 119 to 609 thousands UAH. The Parliament voted in support of this decision on 13 February – now the law awaits for President’s signature. The salary for military personnel is increased.

Internet is full of different advices how to avoid mobilization. There is even a “standard” example of forms to be filled up by people willing to avoid serving in the army. However, these forms are not legal. Human rights defenders warn people from using them.