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SSU and National Police detain 5 more organizers of draft evasion schemes

Security Service of Ukraine

14:00, 30 July 2025

The SSU and National Police have dismantled new mobilization evasion schemes in various regions of Ukraine. Five organizers have been detained.

For sums ranging from USD 6,000 to 15,000, they prepared fake documents for conscripts to avoid military service.

In Kyiv, the SSU Military Counterintelligence has detained a commander of a military unit in northern Ukraine, who was making money on draft dodgers.

For money, the offender hired draft evaders to work and study at one of Kyiv's universities, who did not actually show up there.

To do this, the suspect used personal contacts among officials of the educational institution.

In addition, he forged disability certificates of and sold fake diplomatic IDs. For this, he used fake forms and stamps of government institutions.

In Dnipro, the SSU Military Counterintelligence has exposed three officials of the Territorial Recruitment Center who were receiving bribes from conscripts for 'unfitness for service'.

The scam involved the head of the military registration and enlistment office and two of his subordinates. According to the investigation, 37 conscripts used their "services."

Following the SSU operations, all illegal decisions made by military medical commissions have been annulled.

In Zakarpattia, a head of the neurology department, a member of the Military Medical Commission, was notified of suspicion of diagnosing draft dodgers with "serious" illnesses and issuing them fake disability certificates.

All those detained have been notified of suspicion, according to actions each of them committed, under several Articles of the CCU:

• 28.2, 114-1.1 (obstruction of the AFU's lawful activities during a special period committed by a group of persons acting in collusion);
• 368.1 (acceptance of a proposal, promise or receipt of unlawful benefits by an official);
• 27.3, 362.3 (unauthorized actions with information processed in electronic computers, automated systems, computer networks).

The suspects face up to 10 years in prison with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of Kyiv City Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Central region, Dnipro Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Eastern region and Zakarpattia Region Prosecutor's Office.