Members of a traffic police company reporting to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry department for the Volyn region have been discharged from service after refusing to serve in the area of the ongoing antiterrorist operation in the southeastern part of Ukraine, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said.
“12 traffic cops refused to go to serve in the ATO [antiterrorist operation] area. All the 12 have been sacked,” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
The policemen have been discharged “for discrediting the police officer’s title and violating the oath in the Volyn traffic police,” he said.
At the same time, the Interior Ministry reported on its official Web site that Avakov had decided to discharge 13 members of a traffic police company for “personal indiscipline and refusal to carry out their duties stipulated by the Ukrainian law On Combating Terrorism and serve for protecting law and order in the antiterrorist operation area.”
