Parents ask for fathers and children – Newspaper Kommersant No. 225 (7426) dated 05.12.
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An initiative group of parents of disabled children and parents with many children sent an open appeal to President Vladimir Putin with a request to facilitate the adoption of amendments to the legislation on mobilization, guaranteed to exempt men raising disabled children, disabled since childhood, and fathers of large families from conscription. The relevant amendments have been submitted to the State Duma, but deputies plan to consider them in January. So far, there are only explanations from the Ministry of Defense regarding fathers with many children, however, the wives of the mobilized told Kommersant that not all military commissariats and regional authorities are ready to take them into account.
Parents of children with disabilities, disabled since childhood and parents with many children united in the initiative group “We are near!” to fight for amendments to the law “On mobilization training”. Now there are more than 2.5 thousand people in the group – mostly women. According to their leader Oksana Safaryan, in about 40 such families, men were mobilized. The activists sent an open letter to Vladimir Putin with a request to include in the list of persons who are entitled to a deferment from conscription for military service for mobilization (Article 18 of the Federal Law-31), fathers raising children with disabilities and disabled since childhood; fathers of many children who have three children under the age of 18; and men with two children and a pregnant wife for a period of 22 weeks. The authors urge “to do it now, before the end of the SVO”: “Vladimir Vladimirovich, you are the defender of family values in our country, and we look forward to your personal participation, help and intercession.”
Public organizations, in particular the All-Russian Organization of Parents of Disabled Children (VORDI), have been declaring the need for armor for men raising children with disabilities and fathers of many children since the announcement of partial mobilization in the Russian Federation. Several bills concerning the mobilization of these categories have been submitted to the State Duma. Two of them were prepared by deputy Nina Ostanina (KPRF) – on granting a deferment to citizens who have a single parent and have a disabled child. Two more were submitted by the Just Russia – For Truth faction: one refers to the need for a delay for parents or guardians caring for a disabled child or disabled since childhood of group I; another also mentions citizens who have a disabled child under the age of three. A bill on deferment for the sole breadwinners of a family with disabled children was also introduced by three deputies of the New People faction. Representatives of the LDPR faction propose to give a deferment to those who have a dependent child with a disability, disabled since childhood, as well as brothers of such disabled people.
So far, none of these bills has been considered. For example, the amendments of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, calculated in the State Duma Committee on Defense, will be considered in the first reading in January 2023. However, on October 4, a directive from the Ministry of Defense appeared, explaining which categories of citizens are exempt from mobilization. Citizens with dependents of three or more children under the age of 16 (the law on mobilization says about four or more minor children), parents of three or more children under 18 years of age, if at least one of these children is disabled , and parents of a child with palliative status.
As Kommersant was told by the participants of the initiative group “We are near!”, Not all military commissariats and regional leaders are ready to rely on the explanations of the General Staff. So, Grigory Monakhov, a father with many children from the Moscow region, who was called up on October 8, was denied demobilization, since his eldest child (out of three) was not his own and was not adopted. At the same time, his wife Nadezhda Monakhova notes that Mr. Monakhov is inscribed as the father in the certificate of a large family by the government of the Moscow Region. According to her, in similar cases (when one of the three children is not native), some residents of the region, who were mobilized before the Ministry of Defense adjusted the criteria for granting a deferment in October, are returned precisely on this basis.
A resident of Kerch, who wished her name not to be heard in the media, claims that her husband is not being returned, even despite the presence of three minor children of her own. The woman says that no matter where she turns – to the head of the republic, to the prosecutor’s office, to the Ministry of Defense – her letters are redirected to the local military commissariat. And they allegedly answer that they know about the directive of the General Staff, but do not focus on it.
Elena Yambyuk from the Rostov region says that Governor Vasily Golubev refused to demobilize her husband Nikolai Yambyuk, explaining that the 12-year-old daughter, who is deaf, was “not severe.” According to Ms. Yambuk, out of five mobilized residents of the region who have underage children with disabilities, only one was returned – the father of a palliative child. Elena Yambiuk says that the family, including her student son, was dependent on Nikolai, the head of the peasant farm. Now, according to her, there is no one to work in the fields, agricultural products lie in a warehouse, and she needs to choose: either to rehabilitate her daughter, or send her child to a boarding school in order to be able to work.
The administrations of the Moscow and Rostov regions did not respond to Kommersant’s request. The Kerch administration and the Council of Ministers of Crimea refused to comment on the situation, advising them to seek clarification from the Russian Defense Ministry.
The press service of Crimean Governor Sergei Aksyonov told Kommersant that he received complaints from citizens about such problems and that he was trying to help “to the best of his ability”, but so far he did not inform the public about it. “Less hype – more concrete work,” the governor’s press service explained.
Elena Klochko, chairman of the VORDI Council, claims that, despite the directive of the General Staff, “no problems” of families with children with disabilities have been resolved. “We received about 10 thousand requests, about a thousand people were consulted, some of them went to the military enlistment offices, prepared by our consultants, and the men were simply not mobilized, some were mobilized, a small number, up to 30 people, were returned,” says Mrs Klochko. According to her, there are regions that treat such appeals “with understanding”, and there are those in which they openly say that they will not meet halfway until changes appear in the law. At the same time, Elena Klochko recalls that the amendments to the law introduced by the deputies solve most of the problems, except for one: they do not take into account the situation when a man takes care of an adult child who has been disabled since childhood. This category, according to her, is now one of the most vulnerable.
Kommersant failed to contact members of the State Duma Committee on Defense. Nina Ostanina said that the deputies would insist on the adoption of the amendments not in January, as the profile committee says, but in December, before the end of the autumn session. “We can do this, we only need political will,” Ms. Ostanina is sure. “I know the position of the defense committee, I know the position of Kartapolov himself (the head of the committee.— “b”), he supports our amendments both for large families, and for the disabled, and for single people. But he is forced, unfortunately, to follow the instructions of the Ministry of Defense and slow down the adoption of these bills.”
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the time of publication did not respond to Kommersant’s request.
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