Original Russian-language document. Law No. 376-IINs of the Second People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic. Adopted during the Second People's Council's legislative period (post-2018). Sourced from the DPR legislative portal. This is a targeted amendment to a single article of Law No. 08-INs (see DOC-105), modifying the grounds for exemption from conscription.
DPR Law No. 376-IINs amends Article 23 of the Law on Military Duty and Military Service (Law No. 08-INs; see DOC-105), which sets out the grounds on which a citizen may not be subject to conscription. Article 23 governs health-based deferment, criminal custody, ongoing investigation, and other exemption categories. The amendment — adopted by the Second People's Council — narrows or modifies the scope of these grounds, reflecting the progressive tightening of conscription obligations in the period leading up to the February 2022 general mobilisation. The amendment is analytically significant as evidence of the DPR's systematic preparation of its legal architecture for full-scale military mobilisation in the months before the general mobilisation decree of 19 February 2022 (DOC-108).
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Title
Law of the Donetsk People's Republic No. 376-IINs "On Amendments to Article 23 of the Law of the Donetsk People's Republic 'On Military Duty and Military Service.'"
Operative clause
Article 23 of the Law of the Donetsk People's Republic "On Military Duty and Military Service" (No. 08-INs) shall be amended as follows: [the specific amendment modifying the grounds for non-conscription under Article 23 — refer to the original document for the precise text of the amended article].
Analytical note
The original Article 23 of Law No. 08-INs (DOC-105) listed the grounds on which citizens were not subject to conscription: unfitness for military service on health grounds; serving a custodial sentence; held on criminal charges or under investigation; temporary deferral as provided by the law; and other cases established by DPR legislation. Law No. 376-IINs modifies these provisions. The significance of this amendment within the DPR legislative sequence is that it represents the ongoing calibration of the military duty framework in the period immediately before the declaration of general mobilisation. Read in sequence with DOC-105 (base law) and DOC-108 (general mobilisation decree), this amendment documents the stepwise legal preparation for the February 2022 mobilisation.