State Services has launched a service for accepting applications for a deferment from mobilization for IT specialists

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media has launched a service on the State Services website through which employees of IT and telecom companies can apply for a deferment from mobilization.

on the website and in the telegram channel Instructions for submitting an application have been published of the department. It can be submitted by the employee himself, but a special form must be attached to it, signed by the electronic signature of the organization's CEO.

The Ministry of Digital Development will process applications and send them to the Ministry of Defense. Decisions on the postponement of IT-specialists from the draft will be taken in the military department.

• On September 23, the Ministry of Defense announced that employees of the IT sector, telecom operators, the media and banks will not be called up as part of the mobilization (if their company meets certain requirements).
• The Ministry of Digital Development, in turn , stated that it was only about a deferment from conscription. On September 26, the department named specialties that can provide IT specialists with a deferment from conscription.
• still Despite the clarifications of the ministries, there were attempts to take IT specialists to the front in the military registration and enlistment offices.