In the Poltava region, the court considered the case of a military man who left the unit’s location three times. He held officer positions.
The court sentenced the man to five years in prison. Suspilne Poltava reports this with reference to the Unified State Register of Court Decisions..
As the court found, a mobilized serviceman, who held officer positions in various units, during his service three times without permission left his place of service without good reason..
The first incident occurred in December 2024, the second in September 2025, and the third in October 2025.. In all cases, as it turned out, the man did not fulfill the duties of military service for a long time and did not make any attempts to return to the unit.
After leaving his place of service without permission for the second time in September 2025, the man hid for a long time outside the military unit.. On October 6, 2025, law enforcement officers established his whereabouts: he was hiding in Odessa. The next day, the search team of the military unit took him to the unit’s temporary deployment point. For the third time, the serviceman went to the SZCh on October 19, 2025. On October 24, law enforcement officers found a serviceman in the village of Dachnoye, Odessa region. On October 26, he was re-delivered to the military unit. Subsequently, on November 4, 2025, the man voluntarily appeared at the State Bureau of Investigation in Poltava.
During the trial, the accused fully admitted his guilt and explained that he acted for personal reasons, without the intention of permanently evading military service.. The man stated that he was in a difficult moral and psychological state. The court found the accused guilty of. 5 tbsp.
407 “Unauthorized abandonment of a military unit or place of service” of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and imposed a sentence of 5 years in prison. This is the minimum period provided for by the sanction of the article.
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