{"id":1294702,"date":"2025-09-19T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-introduced-the-first-military-ombudsman-in-ukraine-who-will-become-him\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:51:19","slug":"zelensky-introduced-the-first-military-ombudsman-in-ukraine-who-will-become-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-introduced-the-first-military-ombudsman-in-ukraine-who-will-become-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy Introduces Ukraine\u2019s First Military Ombudsman: Who Is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has established the post of Ukraine\u2019s first military ombudsman, appointing human rights defender Olga Reshetylova as Commissioner for the Rights of Servicemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The head of state announced<\/a> this in an evening address to Ukrainians, thanking the people’s deputies for adopting the relevant bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is about real protection of the rights of our soldiers. The law has already been signed and published. Today, I signed a decree to implement it \u2014 a decree establishing the Office of the Military Ombudsman. The regulations governing this institution have also been approved. And I will appoint Olga Reshetylova, a person well known to our soldiers, as Ukraine\u2019s first military ombudsman,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

The President emphasized that the launch of this new institution should provide effective protection for service members and their families.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis must be felt at every level of Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces: we are doing what strengthens the army, and we are also doing what strengthens the soldiers who serve in it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, on June 3, the Verkhovna Rada supported in the first reading draft law No. 13266, which provides for the creation of the institution of a military ombudsman to protect the rights and freedoms of servicemen<\/a>. The document received 287 votes from people’s deputies.<\/p>\n

Also, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights has received 1,964 complaints about the actions of military unit commands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has established the post of Ukraine\u2019s first military ombudsman, appointing human rights defender Olga Reshetylova as Commissioner for the Rights of Servicemen. The head of state announced this in an evening address to Ukrainians, thanking the people’s deputies for adopting the relevant bill. \u201cThis is about real protection of the rights of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1294699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76878],"class_list":["post-1294702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294847,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294702\/revisions\/1294847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}