Tetyana Chornovol called on Daria Kalenyuk’s husband to enlist voluntarily in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Tetyana Chornovol criticised Daria Kalenyuk, the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Centre, on social media and stated that, in her opinion, Kalenyuk’s husband should voluntarily enlist in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In her post, Chornovol noted that Kalenyuk’s husband, she said, has a legal right to defer mobilisation, as the family is raising a child with a disability. At the same time, she expressed her belief that this does not preclude the possibility of voluntarily joining the army.
Chornovol also raised the question of the moral right to publicly criticise the military command if, as she put it, family members are not serving in the armed forces.
‘This woman’s husband has never fought in a war. Legally, he is entitled to this, as their son has a disability. But nothing prevents him from volunteering. Moreover, he has a moral obligation to do so.
After all, otherwise the question arises as to whether a well-known woman, who keeps her husband by her side, has the moral right to determine who should lead the army, and whether it is acceptable for her to publicly attack the military command with disparaging remarks and threats?”, — wrote Chornovol.
Furthermore, Chornovol expressed her own views on the military service of certain civil society activists who, she said, are seeking to hold non-combatant posts. In conclusion, she stated that, otherwise, she considers such a situation to be a manifestation of “cynicism and a sense of entitlement”.
“Shouldn’t well-known activists take responsibility and do what’s expected of them—defend their country, just as millions of ordinary people do? After all, this major war has been going on for five years now. It’s high time.
We now have a new Chief of the General Staff, a man whom Kalenyuk congratulates on taking up this post. So you can stop whingeing about persecution and finally let your husband join the ranks of the army under the command of the new Chief of the General Staff.
And not just into the army, but into combat duty, because your fellow well-known activists love to join the army for so-called command posts, to strike deals with non-‘Soviet-style’ commanders behind the scenes, so that their military duties consist of collecting various perks and benefits for the troops with a flexible duty roster…”, she wrote.
With her post, Tetiana Chornovol was responding to one of Daria Kalenyuk’s earlier publications.
