Students in vocational and higher education who were called up for military service will be demobilized by the end of this month, Lugansk People’s Republic Education and Science Minister Ivan Kusov said.
“<...> full time and extramural students, called up from February 19 on will be demobilized by the end of November. A lot of work is being done. We’re waiting for the students to be at their place in universities and vocational colleges. The lists have been put together; we’re checking them,” Kusov said.
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. After the LPR militia worked out the dedicated discharge procedure, LPR Acting Head Leonid Pasechnik signed a decree on demobilization of full-time and extramural students. Demobilized LPR students will enjoy the status of war veteran and receive state decorations, LPR military commissar Andrey Gubanov said.
On February 24, Putin 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
