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🔈 The State Bureau of Investigation half a year later notified Senior Lieutenant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Viktoriia Kuznetsova of suspicion; she, while she should have been undergoing inpatient treatment, participated in filming of the TV show “MasterChef.” Our bureau wrote about this topic in March.
The woman, “with the help of unidentified persons,” was hospitalized and stayed in the neurosurgery inpatient department “for the purpose of evading the performance of official duties.” Her treatment was supposed to last from 14 April to 16 August 2025. However, during that time, from 22 April to 11 August, the senior lieutenant, who held the position of navigator of a ship of the aviation detachment of the transport aviation squadron, in fact took part in the show. The state suffered losses of almost 250 thousand hryvnias.
Kuznetsova was notified of suspicion under two articles: evasion of military service by deceit in conditions of martial law (part 4 of article 409 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and fraud committed in conditions of martial law that caused significant damage (part 3 of article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
The STB website states that Viktoriia Kuznetsova is originally from Kolomyia, she is 27 years old and is a former service member (she was a navigator in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2015). STB reported that Viktoriia Kuznetsova left the “MasterChef” project one step before the final. The culinary site Ovoch wrote that Viktoriia Kuznetsova was born in Kharkiv and entered military service at age 17. She later moved to Kolomyia in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, where she dreams of opening her own bakery.
Recall that earlier the same kind of story happened to the head of the sector for interaction with state authorities and international cooperation of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Mykolaiv region, Olesia Babii-Polezhaieva.
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