According to the Interior Ministry, 67,370 women from Ukraine are already registered as displaced persons in Austria, and now there could be another huge wave of entry: Ukrainian media are already reporting that from October 1, women with medical training For all Ukrainian women – ie. Compulsory military service has been introduced – for all nurses, pharmacists and doctors.
Podrobnosti news portal writes: “Women with medical or pharmaceutical training will have to register for military service from October 1, 2023. They acquire the status of soldiers for whom travel abroad is prohibited.” Fedir Venislavsky, a member of the National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee of the Verkhovna Rada and the President’s representative in parliament have also now said this.
Ukrainian women with medical training will be able to leave the country in just 22 days with a special permit. As the order in Kiev potentially affects hundreds of thousands of women throughout the country, which still has about 32 million non-refugee residents, an even bigger wave of refugees is now likely to head to Western countries: this is probably already many To clarify for people, including young women, they are no longer eligible for military service, are allowed to leave Ukraine before the end of the war – and how fugitives are treated if caught trying to escape. goes.
In Ukraine, desertion is punishable by up to 12 years in prison. Since February, courts are no longer able to impose suspended sentences or sentences less than those provided for in the new law, as was the case previously.
The new order to force thousands of women in the nursing profession to do military service allows us to draw conclusions about the real military situation in Ukraine. Like the current recruitment measure, tuberculosis victims and AIDS patients can also be called up to serve in the army.
