ANNUAL REPORTOF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 94 Example Former servicewoman L. complained to the Commissioner about the inaction of the military authorities in granting her the status of a combatant. At the same time, the applicant alleges that the archives of the Armed Forces had created obstacles to her searching for copies of the orders sending her to the OUF area, and that these copies had not been attached to her personal files. After the intervention of the Commissioner, the issue was resolved positively. During the reporting period, 17 former personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine applied to the Commissioner with similar requests for assistance, as they could not obtain combatant status for a long period after their release from service. The issue was settled after the intervention of the Commissioner. Violation of the state-guaranteed right of citizens to release and deferment from military service Monitoring revealed numerous cases of conscription commissions ignoring medical documents indicating that the conscripts had serious health problems, as well as documents that entitled them to deferment from service due to family circumstances. This not only violates the legally guaranteed right of a person to deferment, but also in some cases creates a real threat to the health and life of the conscript or his family members, who are left without the necessary care and security due to the conscription of their son. CHAPTER 4 Example The Commissioner received an appeal from F. on behalf of her son. She reported that her son was being called up for military service and the fact that he was a full-time student in the second year of studies was ignored. Following the Commissioner’s intervention, by a decision of Izmail District Conscription Commission the applicant’s son was granted a deferment for education until 30 June 2021,. Example The Commissioner was approached by single 70-year-old pensioner H., who stated that his son had received a summons to appear before the conscription board, despite the fact that his son was the only person caring for H., and despite repeated appeals to the military commissar to grant him a deferment from conscription due to family circumstances. After the intervention of the Commissioner, the conscription board decided to grant the conscript a deferment. During the reporting period, following the Commissioner’s intervention, certain military personnel (in particular, private S. called up for military service by Zavodskyi District Military Commissariat of Zaporizhia despite congenital heart disease) were discharged from military service early due to health conditions, following decisions by military medical commissions.