The Duma has passed a law regarding voluntary return to service.

This was reported by people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

According to his information, 253 parliamentarians supported the decision.

Specifically, the bill proposes:

• to allow military personnel who have deserted or left their units for the first time to voluntarily return to service (in this case, their contract continues to be valid);


• to restore monetary payments and the provision of food, clothing, and other support, as well as benefits and social guarantees upon their return to service;


• if soldiers return to service after their first desertion or unauthorized absence, any criminal proceedings initiated against them should not be grounds for denying their re-enlistment.

Previously, we wrote that in October of this year, courts in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Transcarpathian, and Ternopil regions issued about one hundred rulings allowing military personnel who had deserted to return to service.

We also reported that in November, the Ivano-Frankivsk City Court permitted a soldier who had left his unit to return to the front without punishment.

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