In central and western regions of Ukraine, the Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigation and the National Police have dismantled another five schemes for evading mobilization.

Ten organizers have been detained. They were selling fake medical certificates or smuggling evaders abroad outside checkpoints.

The cost of such ‘services’ reached USD 15,000.

In Bukovina, the SSU and the SBI detained an official of a local judicial security unit who, together with an acquaintance, helped men of conscription age flee to the EU through the so-called ‘green border’.

First, the organizers gathered ‘clients’ near the border and then took them to a neighbouring country via forest paths.

Two more perpetrators were exposed in Lviv. One of them registered conscripts as ‘artists’ in a music band touring abroad.

Another sold ‘packages of documents’ that exempted men from military service.

In Cherkasy, a 43-year-old entrepreneur was detained for selling fake certificates of serious illness of the evaders’ relatives who supposedly needed constant care.

A couple of organizers and an accomplice were detained in Cherkasy for helping draft dodgers to be removed from military records on the basis of fake medical documents.

In Zhytomyr, a businessman was detained: he promised men a ‘ticket to the EU.’ During communication with his ‘clients’, the individual used his connections in the law enforcement as a cover.

In Ternopil, a local resident was detained: through an acquaintance in a military hospital he forged certificates of unfitness for service.

The detainees have been notified of suspicion under the following Articles of the CCU, according to the actions each of them committed:

• 114-1.1 (preparation to obstruct the lawful activities of the AFU, during a special period);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border of Ukraine, committed by an organized group);
• 369.3 (offering, promising or providing unlawful benefits to an official, committed by a group acting in collusion);
• 369-2.3 (abuse of influence).

The suspects are in custody and face up to 9 years in prison with confiscation of property.

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