He was going to the training camp, but went out to the SVO – Picture of the Day – Kommersant

In Ulyanovsk, reserve major Oleg Sergeev is suing the military registration and enlistment office because of mobilization. In September 2022, the officer was informed that he was going to military training, and at the assembly point it turned out that he was mobilized to participate in the SVO. The major was able to return only thanks to the coronavirus and now demands that the actions of the military registration and enlistment office be recognized as illegal. He claims that he is ready to be mobilized, but demands that this procedure be carried out according to the law, with all guarantees and payments. The civil courts eventually referred the case to a military court.

On September 28, 2022, 50-year-old reserve major Oleg Sergeev received a summons to the military registration and enlistment office. They said that he would be sent to ten days of military training. But at the assembly point in Penza, Mr. Sergeev was told that he had been mobilized for the SVO. At the same time, there were no marks on mobilization in the military ticket, and the military registration and enlistment office did not issue a mobilization order. According to the major, at the assembly point “they were surprised that the officers who arrived from Ulyanovsk did not have documents issued by the military registration and enlistment office.”

Mr. Sergeev and two other officers wrote reports to the district military commissar and the leadership of the assembly point, but received no official response. “Here I fell ill with covid and returned to Ulyanovsk, and after recovery, in October 2022, I immediately went to court,” the major told Kommersant.

“There are no documents that I am a military man called up for mobilization. There was no military medical commission. And it turns out that I just became a volunteer,” he lists claims to the military registration and enlistment office. “But in this case, I will be deprived of the corresponding rights of a serviceman — payments to me or my family in the event of an insured event, military service.” He also claims to have lost his military pension. And because of the deception about the ten-day fees, he did not transfer the case to the place of work, which caused damage to the organization.

The major asked the court to recognize the actions of the military registration and enlistment office and the draft commission as illegal. And to oblige the district military commissariat “to restore the right to call for military service for mobilization in accordance with the procedure established by the current legislation of the Russian Federation.”

“I didn’t try to hide or run away,” he explained to Kommersant. In fact, I sent a statement to the court to show that the district military registration and enlistment offices do not work well in our country, they violate the rights of conscripts. Mobilization work is not carried out in peacetime, the mobilization plan has not been worked out and is not observed. And this lawsuit is not only in my interests, but also in the interests of many other residents of the region. In fact, I went against the system, which is now turned against me.”

According to the officer, the court materials included documents from the military investigation department stating that “a contract serviceman, Major Sergeev, left the unit without permission and a pre-investigation check is being carried out against him” (Article 337 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, up to five years in prison).

The Zasviyazhsky District Court of Ulyanovsk dismissed the major’s claim. But the regional court at the end of February canceled this decision and returned the case for a new trial with a recommendation “to take into account all the arguments and objections of the persons involved in the case.”

Last Monday, the district court came to the conclusion that the claim should be sent to the Ulyanovsk garrison military court. Mr. Sergeev does not agree with this decision and is again preparing an appeal. He refers to a letter from the Central District Military Court dated October 4, 2022, according to which citizens of the Russian Federation subject to mobilization “are not military personnel until they are enrolled in the lists of personnel of the relevant military units” and their administrative claims “are not under the jurisdiction of military courts.” “And since there are no marks in the military ID and there are no documents about my call for mobilization, I am not a military man,” the reserve major stressed.

The regional military registration and enlistment office refused to give a detailed comment on the claim of Mr. Sergeev, noting that the position of the military registration and enlistment office “is set out in the court decision (cancelled.— “b”) and it hasn’t changed. And about. The military commissar of the Zasviyazhsky district, Sergei Tutorin, told Kommersant that his position “completely coincides with the position of the regional military registration and enlistment office.”

Sergey Titov, Ulyanovsk