According to Reuters on the 22nd, Ukraine's Attorney General Andrei Kostin said on the same day that he had resigned from his position as Attorney General to take responsibility for a scandal. Previously, dozens of prosecutors from a local prosecutor's office in Ukraine were accused of abusing their power and obtaining disabled status to avoid military service. This phenomenon may exist in Ukraine's "various government agencies."

Kostin's resignation followed a meeting of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, where officials discussed how to fight corruption and guard against loopholes that could be used to delay conscription. "The Prosecutor General must bear political responsibility for the situation in the Ukrainian prosecutor's office," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in a strongly worded statement on social media after the meeting. Minutes later, Kostin issued his resignation statement, calling the situation of false disability diagnoses "clearly unethical" and agreeing with Zelensky on the need for him to take personal responsibility. "Many shameful and abusive facts have been uncovered within the system of the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office," he said. "In this context, I believe it is right to announce my resignation as Prosecutor General."

Kostin ordered an investigation last week after a Ukrainian journalist published a report that 50 prosecutors in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine were registered as disabled . He said the investigation found that the number of disabled prosecutors in the region was 61, 50 of whom were registered as disabled before the conflict broke out. "It is important to determine why they were given the status of disabled people. In the Khmelnytskyi region, the percentage of such employees is very high."

"By the way, it's not just prosecutors. In the customs and tax systems, in the pension fund system, in local governments, there are hundreds of obviously unreasonable disability (identity) cases," Zelensky said in a speech on the evening of the 22nd. "All of this must be handled carefully and quickly." Reuters said that Zelensky has ordered the cabinet to urgently draft a law to reform the disability assessment system in order to dissolve the existing medical committee by the end of 2024. The Ukrainian National Security Service said on the 22nd that in the 2024 criminal investigation, 64 members of the medical committee were listed as suspects, and another 9 were tried and convicted.

Ukraine's war mobilization is a controversial issue that has polarized society after the government launched a massive conscription drive earlier this year to bolster its struggling army, AFP said.