To sign a new 3-year contract with Senior Sergeant D. having been previously discharged from Military Unit 12801 of Nizhniy Novgorod Region. That’s the decision made by the Ministry of Defence of Russia following the High Commissioner’s request to regard some details related to the case which had not been taken into account.

The request did not challenge the legitimacy of the contract service sergeant’s discharge. However, it underscored that after the structural changes in 2015 the military unit lacked experts who could maintain the highest special guard dog training standards in the military police of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Moreover, it said that the intercession of the Military Police Regional Directorate’s Chief and the high marks given to the dog training service by the Chairman of the Russia’s Ministry of Defence Commission that had inspected the unit before it was reformed were not taken into consideration.

On 12 August, the High Commissioner’s Office was informed that in this regard, the Deputy Minister of Defence of Russia decided to sign a new military service contract with Senior Sergeant D. as an exception.