The Kiev District Administrative Court decided to consider the resonant case of the Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Roman Kovalev in a general rather than simplified manner.

As Kovalev wrote on his Facebook page, initially the court wanted to consider the case without calling the parties, debating and without involving the media.

" Therefore, another statement was sent to the court with a request to order a consideration of the case in general proceedings. The judge satisfied our request, "

He noted that he considers this a small victory in the fight for the rights of Ukrainian military personnel and promised to go all the way, writes the Observer.

According to the court ruling, the preparatory hearing on the scandalous case will be held on July 20, 2020..

" Schedule a preparatory meeting for July 20, 2020 at 15:00, "

We will remind, earlier the APU officer, Major Roman Kovalev, was severely reprimanded for criticizing the president Vladimir Zelensky.

After that, Kovalev decided to appeal to the court, saying that he was limited in his rights and freedoms as a citizen.

The lawsuit concerns a violation of the right to freedom of speech by the commander of the Ground Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Sirsky.

Soon the officer said that after the scandal erupted, the command of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces increased pressure on him.

In addition, he published a document according to which servicemen in Ukraine want to restrict access to social networks.

The officer thanked the Ukrainians for their support, but admitted that despite this, the "

Kovalev also said that after a scandal with a reprimand, he ended up in a hospital, where doctors tried to fake data about his state of health and wrote out ahead of time..

February 28, he came to talk with the head of cardiac rheumatology Galina Spasskaya and wanted to record their conversation on the phone. However, the head of the legal service of the hospital, Lt. Col. Andrei Kuzminets, took the phone from Kovalev and switched to threats with assault.

In addition to everything, it became known that they want to transfer Kovalev to a lower position, which does not correspond to the level of his training.

On April 5, Kovalev wrote a report on his resignation due to violations of the terms of the contract, as well as in order to have more time to fight for the rights of the Ukrainian military.

Roman Kovalov.