The Ministry of Defense has canceled nine “controversial” articles that exempted individuals from military service. According to various estimates, there are tens of thousands of men with limited fitness for service in Ukraine. The Parliament is considering completely removing this category. In Ukraine, it has been decided to conscript individuals with limited fitness for service into the army. The ranks of the Armed Forces may now include individuals with clinically treated tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and asymptomatic HIV. The Ministry of Defense provides an explanation: if a serviceman is found unfit for service in one speciality, the unit commander can refer them to a Medical Board. Doctors will then determine their fitness for a new type of activity. The document outlines the procedure for the Medical Board to make a decision on the causal relationship between a medical condition, injury (wounds, concussions, mutilations), military service and the defense of the country. The right approach, according to the MP from the Servant of the People party and the Deputy Chair of the Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Mariana Bezuhla, is to completely eliminate the category of “limited fitness for service.” See also: How an operator, a florist and a record-breaking athlete, who helped the Armed Forces to defend the region, died for Ukraine There will be only two criteria left: fit or unfit for military service, she explained to Focus. “We have expanded the 402nd order of the Ministry of Defense from 2008. It had unrealistic criteria for service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during peacetime. The selection criteria need to be updated due to the start of Russian aggression in 2014 and full-scale war in 2022. I won’t discuss the list of diseases; it’s a complex issue. The implementation and changes to the order will be worked out in a working group. We are considering the possibility of excluding the category of limited fitness for service during wartime,” the politician noted. The Ministry of Defense order mentions making everyone with “controversial” articles 2-v, 4-v, 5-v, 12-v, 13-v, 14-v, 17-v, 21-v, and 22-v fit for service. Here is their brief decryption: 2-v — Clinically cured tuberculosis. 4-v — Viral hepatitis with minor functional impairments. 5-v — Asymptomatic HIV. 12-v — Anemia, blood clotting disorders. 13-v — Endocrine system diseases with minor functional...