Statistics indicate a decrease in crimes related to evasion of conscription measures in recent years. However, the problem, albeit on a smaller scale, still exists.

The importance of military service and the responsibility for evading conscription measures were discussed today during a meeting between the military commissar of Lepel and Ushaсhi districts, Yuri Oleschkovsky, and the judge of the Lepel district court, Alesya Novik, with students of the Agrarian-Technical College.

Conscription measures are listed in Article 34 of the Law "On Military Duty". These include appearing for a medical examination, conducting it, the meeting of the conscription commission, the appearance of conscripted citizens at the military commissariat, at the conscription (assembly) point for dispatch to the place of active military service, service in the reserve, and the dispatch of citizens to the place of active service or in reserve. They are mandatory for all conscripts who have reached the age of conscription for military service (18 years) and are, in essence, a form of exercising their constitutional duty to defend the Republic of Belarus.

— I would like to emphasize that a citizen who has received a summons is obliged to appear at the military commissariat. Only the conscription commission has the right to make a decision regarding whether he is subject to conscription or not. One cannot exempt oneself from this. After all, some naively believe that if they, as they think, have the right to deferment or have a disease that prevents conscription, they can ignore the summons. But this is not the case! One must appear at the military commissariat, provide documents, undergo a medical examination, and only after that will an appropriate decision be made: to declare the person fit for service or to make a different decision regarding them – to grant deferment, for example, — noted Yuri Oleschkovsky.

— Evasion of conscription measures for military service (Article 435 of the Criminal Code) is understood as the intentional failure by a citizen, in the absence of valid reasons, to fulfill the duty imposed by law to participate in such measures, if such an act has hindered the conscription commission from making and/or implementing a decision on his fulfillment of military duty. Both administrative and criminal liability are provided for violation of military duty, — stated judge Alesya Novik.