People’s deputy of Ukraine from the Batkivshchyna party and Chairman of the Provisional Investigatory Commission on events in Ilovaisk Andriy Senchenko intends to submit to the parliament a bill on criminal responsibility for attempts of hampering in getting a combatant status, as well as for facts of assistance in getting this status by persons, who were there for several days.
He told journalists before the beginning of a meeting of the Provisional Investigatory Commission on Ilovaisk, a Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“I submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill, according to which persons will be brought to criminal responsibility for the attempts to hamper in getting a status of the ATO participant by soldiers, participating in the operation, as well as for facts of assistance in getting such a status by people, who were there for several days,” Senchenko said.