President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has stated that based on the results of the inspection of the work of regional military commissariats, a decision has been made to dismiss all regional military commissars.
"I have just held a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council. A special one. The key issue was the results of the inspection of the "military commissars". Reports were delivered by the State Bureau of Investigation, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Prosecutor General, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. In total, there are already 112 criminal proceedings against officials of the territorial recruitment centers. 33 suspects.
Our decisions are the following. We are dismissing all regional "military commissars". This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery in times of war constitute treason. Instead, warriors who have gone through the frontline or who cannot be in the trenches because they have lost their health, lost their limbs, but have retained their dignity and have no cynicism are the ones who can be entrusted with this system of recruitment", - Zelensky stated in his video address.
As previously reported, a military commissar from the Donetsk oblast who unlawfully allocated one million hryvnias to "combatants" under his command has been taken into custody.