The Security Service and the National Police have blocked new schemes for evading mobilization and detained 20 organizers. For sums ranging from USD 3,000 to 14,000, the perpetrators helped military-liable men to evade conscription.

In Chernihiv oblast, two local residents were exposed for enrolling draft evaders in one of the universities.

Another organizer arranged for his ‘clients’ to be hired by a local critical infrastructure enterprise in order to obtain deferral from conscription.

In Kyiv, a radiologist was detained. Together with her nurse, she sold fake medical certificates of poor health to ‘write off’ draft dodgers from military registration.

In Prykarpattia, five employees of a transport company were detained for registering conscripts as transborder drivers to enable them to travel abroad.

In Uman district, Cherkasy region, a specialist from the city council’s land department has been apprehended. Together with an ophthalmologist, a member of the Military Medical Commission, he sold fake medical certificates to defer conscription.

The official also posted comments on his page on the banned Odnoklassniki social network in support of russia’s armed aggression.

In Zakarpattia, three suspects were detained in Uzhhorod district. They showed men of draft age escape routes through forest paths to the EU, evading checkpoints.

The SSU Military Counterintelligence detained three residents of Lutsk who had set up a ‘printing house’ at home to forge military registration and medical documents to help draft dodgers evade mobilization.

In Odesa, the SSU Military Counterintelligence officers exposed a surgeon from a military medical centre who was selling fake disability certificates to active military personnel.

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

• 28.2, 114-1.1 (obstruction of the lawful activities of the AFU, during a special period, committed by a group, upon prior conspiracy);
• 332.3 (illegal transportation of persons across the state border, committed by an organized group);
• 368.3 (acceptance of a proposal, promise or receipt of unlawful benefits by an official);
• 28.2, 369-2.2 (abuse of influence, committed by a group, acting upon prior conspiracy);
• 436-2.2, 436-2.3 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants).

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

The operational and investigative actions were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Offices.