Almost 50 thousand Ukrainian security forces received the status of combatants in early October, said on the first day weekend on the Internet office of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine.

"as of October 2, after consideration by relevant commissions of the materials on the recognition of combatants adopted a conclusion on granting the status of combatants 48 914 employees of bodies of internal Affairs, national guard, state border service and the state service of Ukraine for emergency situations ", - reported in the report.

As noted, among this number are 21 thousand 898 police officers and 714 fifteen thousand soldiers of the National guard of Ukraine. Also, the status of combatants received 10 thousand 669 employees of the state border service and state emergency service worker, 633. At the same time 2 people were deprived of the first granted them the status of combatants.

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