Today a round table was held to discuss issues of pension and social security for military service veterans, initiated by the Volyn Regional Committee on Social and Legal Security of Servicemen, Customs Service Employees and Their Family Members. \nDuring the round table, the following question was raised: why discrimination against servicemen is permitted in terms of their pension provision. In particular, the committee chairman Omelian Baranetskyi noted that "in today's realities, a war veteran who served in the army for more than 25 years receives a pension several times smaller than those who never smelled gunpowder." In his opinion, this is the result of a systemic crisis in the armed forces, which has not only manifested itself in Brovary, Sknyliv or near Melitopol, but has already now appeared in the pension provision of servicemen of the Armed Forces. "It is immoral when war veterans are asked to wait a few more years," says Omelian Myronovych. "Today's pension system contradicts the elementary principles of social justice," those who participated in the round table are convinced. A serviceman's pension today depends on the time of service, which is why unfair disproportions arise when junior officers discharged in 2004 receive a larger pension than generals discharged earlier. Officers have to fight for their inalienable rights in courts. \nAccording to Omelian Baranetskyi, all legislative acts concerning servicemen, including those on pension provision, undergo approval in the Ministry of Defense. And military leaders are interested in their pensions growing, while veterans are not mentioned. Such people, in Mr. Baranetskyi's opinion, discredit both the army and the state; by humiliating those who defended calm and peace in the state, they have lost officer honor and dignity. \nSeparately, the issue of reforming the Armed Forces was raised, the main component of which is reduction. There is a problem that not all servicemen fall under the Law "On State Guarantees of Social Protection of Servicemen Discharged from Service in Connection with the Reform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and Their Family Members." It is precisely they who remain outside employment and survival, without any social guarantees," claims military service veteran Hryhorii Pustovit. According to him, "the vast majority of military personnel leaving service are not provided with housing, some of them do not have the opportunity to register at the employment center (those entitled to pensions are not subject to employment), they do not have an education that would allow them to work effectively in civilian conditions. \nIncidentally, out of 1,000 servicemen of the Lutsk aviation brigade, as a result of the so-called reform of the armed forces, only one hundred remain in service, all the others join the army of the unemployed. \n \nThe Committee on Social and Legal Security of Servicemen, Customs Service Employees and Their Family Members intends to appeal to the President with a demand to ensure compliance with Art. 22 of the Constitution of Ukraine and not to allow the adoption of such laws that narrow the content and scope of existing rights and freedoms in the part concerning servicemen and veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. \n