Release from military service

Description

Do you have a legal right to be released, but the command is ignoring your raports? The lawyers of the YURKONSALT office help servicemen return home. Contact us right now.

If you simply wait, your documents may “get lost” at the headquarters, and the process will drag on for many long months. We know how to make the system work according to law and get the case to a real order. Learn more about legal grounds for release from the Armed Forces of Ukraine to understand your chances.

Grounds for release from military service in 2026

The law clearly defines who has the right to return home. If you have at least one of these reasons, you are not obliged to remain in service.

Command often interprets the rules their own way, but the law has higher authority. We prove the availability of grounds with documents.

Release for health reasons

This means that the Military Medical Commission (VLC) has recognized you as unfit for service. If health issues are ignored, you may be sent to the front despite real illnesses. We help you obtain the correct conclusion, and if necessary we involve a lawyer for VLC-related matters to challenge unlawful decisions.

Release due to family circumstances

This includes care for sick relatives, disability of your wife, or disability of parents. Without the correct package of certificates, the raport will simply be returned. We collect all medical conclusions and care acts so that the unit has no chance to refuse.

Release for parents with many children

Servicemen who support three or more children under 18 have the right to be released. If you do not provide birth certificates and proof of support, you will be kept in the ranks. We form an indisputable document package for a quick order.

Release due to disability of relatives and care

This is the most common, but also the most complicated category of cases. Staff lawyers often require extra certificates or refuse due to the existence of other able-bodied relatives.

We know current court practice and we force the unit to accept documents without invented requirements.

Disability of the wife

Even the wife’s third group of disability gives the right to be released. Commanders often say that this is not enough and require certificates about the need for care. This is unlawful. We have successful experience in proving this in courts—for example, release due to the wife’s disability, 3rd group.

Care for parents or your wife’s mother (mother-in-law)

The law allows release if your wife’s parents have disability, 1st or 2nd group. Often they refuse, citing that your wife’s mother has other children. We prove your right to be released, as it was in the case of release due to the disability of your wife’s mother.

Procedure for submitting and reviewing a raport for release

Writing a raport is only 10% of the work. The main thing is to make sure it receives an incoming number and goes to be processed, and does not end up in a desk drawer.

We monitor every stage of the document’s movement from your hands to the signature of the brigade commander.

How to correctly draft a raport

The raport must include a clear reference to the article of the law and a list of attachments. If you write it arbitrarily, that gives the commander a reason to return the document. Use our instruction on writing a raport for release from the Armed Forces of Ukraine to avoid mistakes at the start.

Registration in the unit

Without registration in the incoming correspondence journal, the raport legally does not exist. If you simply handed it to the company commander, it may disappear. We teach you how to correctly record the submission, or we do it through a lawyer’s request.

Decision acceptance timelines

The law gives the commander up to 30 days to review the documents. If you wait for months, your rights are violated. We record the delay and submit complaints to the higher headquarters.

What to do if the command ignores the raport

You submitted the documents, but in response there is silence. This is a typical delaying tactic that thousands of servicemen face.

We break through this wall of silence using lawful but firm methods. The commander is forced to respond.

Lawyer’s request

This is an official document from a lawyer that the military unit is required to answer within 5 days. If it’s easy to ignore an ordinary raport, then ignoring a request entails liability. This is the fastest way to move the case off dead center.

Complaints to higher command

If the brigade is silent, we contact the Operational Command or the Ministry of Defense. When an order comes from above to sort it out, local commanders quickly find your raport and make a decision. You get a lawful result.

Cost of legal assistance for release

You must clearly understand what you are paying for and what prospects you have. We work transparently and do not charge for cases that cannot be won.

Everything starts with an honest assessment of your situation.

Free initial consultation

Write to us in chat and send any available documents. The lawyer will assess the prospects of your case for free. We do not take on the work if we do not see legal grounds for release — this protects you from unnecessary expenses.

Full consultation and support

If the case has prospects, we schedule a full paid consultation. At it, the lawyer thoroughly analyzes all certificates and builds a step-by-step strategy. Further support until the release order is issued happens at a clearly agreed price without hidden payments.

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