Government simplifies procedure for granting combatant status

Taras Melnychuk, the permanent representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, said this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

"Amendments have been made to the Procedure for granting and depriving persons who defended the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and took direct part in the anti-terrorist operation, ensuring its conduct or in the implementation of measures to ensure national security and defense, repulsion and deterrence of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ensuring their implementation, in measures necessary to ensure the defense of Ukraine, protection of the security of the population and the interests of the state in connection with the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine," the statement said.

According to Melnychuk, the procedure for granting the status of a combatant has been simplified by reducing the number of documents submitted to the relevant commission for determining this status. In particular, only one certificate of direct participation of a person in the above-mentioned events is required, which is the basis for granting the status of a combatant.

As reported, today Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov during the VI International Veterans Forum 'Ukraine. Defenders. Future' said that since 2014, there have been more than 1 million combatants in Ukraine.