LPR's Pasechnik signs decree on demobilization of post-graduates

Lugansk People’s Republic Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik has signed a decree on the demobilization of full-time and extramural postgraduate students.

 

 According to the document, “first-time post-graduates on medical residency or assistantship programs, or in training as research or educational research personnel will be demobilized in December 2022.”

 

2nd Army Corps commanders have been ordered to make contracts with the mobilized citizens who wish to continue their military service due to the new circumstances which arose in connection with the transfer under Russian jurisdiction. These post graduates will be on academic leave for the whole period of contractual service.

 

The decree has come into force.

 

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to demobilize the students of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics and return them to their places of study. Pasechnik signed the LPR student demobilization decree after the LPR militia worked out the discharge procedure. Demobilized LPR students will enjoy the status of war veteran and receive state decorations, LPR military commissar Andrey Gubanov said.

 

Students in vocational and higher education who were called up for military service will be demobilized by the end of this month, the LPR Education and Science Ministry said.

 

On February 24, the Russian president announced a special military operation to protect Donbass residents from Ukrainian aggression. Prior to that, LPR and DPR Heads Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin asked the Russian leader to provide military assistance. On July 3, the LPR militia and Russian armed forces fully liberated the LPR territory from Ukrainian armed formations.

 

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The peace talks that began soon thereafter failed to reach tangible results due to Kiev’s position to settle the conflict by force.

 

The Lugansk People’s Republic became a part of Russia on September 30, 2022 following the unification referendum.*i*ie