Denis Malyuska, head of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, proposed mobilizing prisoners and giving them shovels if the authorities are afraid to arm them. “It is difficult to imagine what danger in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be posed by those who were convicted of violating traffic rules, or those who, for example, committed a corruption violation,” he said.

Earlier, the first deputy head of. the national police, Maxim Tsutskiridze, said that conditionally convicted draft dodgers are still subject to conscription. into the Armed forces of Ukraine.