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SSU and National Police uncover another 12 organizers of mobilization evasion schemes in several regions of Ukraine

Security Service of Ukraine

13:00, 27 August 2025

The SSU Military Counterintelligence and the National Police have dismantled new schemes for evading mobilization and detained 12 organizers of such schemes.

For money, they smuggled conscripts abroad outside of checkpoints or provided fake documents to remove the men from military registration.

In Volyn, a conductor on one of the international trains was detained. Together with his accomplice, he hid conscripts in passenger cars.

In this way, the evaders hoped to 'slip through' border control and leave Ukraine.

In Kyiv, a 33-year-old unemployed man was detained for setting up a clandestine printing shop at home, where he produced certificates of 'poor' health and sold them to conscripts.

Another Kyiv resident was detained for organizing a 'transfer' of draft dodgers to Odesa region, from where they were to be taken along forest paths to unrecognized Transnistria.

In Vinnytsia, a 51-year-old businessman was detained. Through his relative in the Territorial Recruitment Center, he 'removed' conscripts from military registration on the basis of fictitious diagnoses.

In Rivne region, the law enforcement uncovered a 20-year-old local who had set up an escape route for draft dodgers to the EU outside border crossing points.

In Lviv, two more individuals were detained. With the help of an accomplice in the Territorial Recruitment Center, they unlawfully 'removed' draft dodgers from military registration records, supposedly due to health reasons.

In Bukovyna, a 53-year-old perpetrator was detained for 'advising' men of draft age on ways to escape through wooded areas to a neighbouring EU country.

In Odesa, two local residents were detained for attempting to find 'gaps' in the state border in order to illegally transport conscripts outside Ukraine.

In Kirovohrad, a 48-year-old woman was apprehended. Having the second group of disability, she married draft dodgers for money and left the country with them. Then she left them abroad, returned to Ukraine and looked for new 'clients'. The cost of the 'service' was USD 10,000.

The detained individuals have been notified of suspicion under several Articles of the CCU, according to the offences committed:

• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine);
• 369-2.3 (abuse of influence);
• 369.3 (offering, promising or providing unlawful benefits to an official, committed upon prior conspiracy, by a group).

The suspects are in custody and face up to 10 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The operations were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor's Offices.