Mykolaiv plans to establish a coordinating council of veterans

A coordinating council of young war veterans will be established under the mayor of Mykolaiv to serve as an advisory body. Its main task is to participate in the formation and implementation of veteran youth policy in the city.

This was reported by the Mykolaiv City Council.

The Council will develop proposals for draft regulations and formulate recommendations to improve the state of this policy in Mykolaiv. In addition, it will promote cooperation with local governments, authorities, businesses, and NGOs, as well as organize its own projects and programs to develop veterans' policy.

The Coordination Council is open to war veterans aged 18 to 35, as well as other persons with a certain status.

A lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Mykolaiv received the salaries of his subordinates who left the service. The Prymorskyi District Court of Odesa considered an indictment against Volodymyr Skorobohatskyi, a native of Mykolaiv and a lieutenant colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He was found guilty of organizing a scheme that allowed him to misappropriate the salaries of military personnel who served only on paper.

As a deputy commander for the rear, the lieutenant colonel was to provide his self-propelled artillery division with material and technical resources. In this position, the defendant was able to indulge soldiers who left the service without permission and receive their accrued pay.

Thus, starting from October 2022, Skorobohatskyi covered up the absence of his subordinate at the location of the military unit, continuing to indicate him in the report cards. For this "service", the defendant demanded that he provide him with the soldier's bank card along with the details on which the soldier was paid. By the beginning of August 2024, when law enforcement officers put an end to the offender's actions, he managed to withdraw UAH 1 million 7 thousand 480 from the card.

Катерина Глушко