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Law enforcement agencies have uncovered three serving servicemen of the Separate Assault Brigade who are suspected of organizing a provocation against the former commander of a battalion of one of the Separate Mechanized Brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is reported by the National Police of Ukraine.
“For me, it is fundamentally important that no one have any doubt: the police will not hide or gloss over illegal actions by any individuals, regardless of their status or past,” emphasized Maksym Tsutskyridze, First Deputy Chief of the National Police of Ukraine.
The investigation established that the suspects, who previously worked in the police and are currently servicemen, carried out illegal surveillance of the former battalion commander and gathered confidential information about him.
According to the law enforcement, their aim was to break into the victim’s car, plant narcotic and psychotropic substances, and then involve police officers and the Military Law Enforcement Service to arrest the serviceman on the basis of artificially created evidence.
According to the investigation, on the night of 27 to 28 August 2026, three servicemen broke into the former battalion commander’s car, which was parked near his house. Inside the vehicle they left narcotic and psychotropic substances packaged in zip bags.
After this, the defendants reported to law enforcement and representatives of the Military Law Enforcement Service about allegedly prohibited substances in the car.
When the former battalion commander travelled in his own vehicle, the suspects continued to monitor him and relayed information about his movements.
In Kharkiv, police officers stopped the car. During the inspection, narcotic substances and psychotropic substances were found, which, according to the investigation, the suspects had previously planted.
Currently, three servicemen have been charged under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine:
Part 1 of Article 162 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — illegal entry into the dwelling or other property of a person;
Part 2 of Article 182 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — illegal collection, storage, and dissemination of confidential information about a person, committed repeatedly;
Part 2 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, and sale of narcotic drugs and particularly dangerous psychotropic substances, by prior agreement of a group of persons;
Part 2 of Article 372 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine — incitement to bring a knowingly innocent person to criminal liability.
The law enforcement authorities are also preparing a request to the court to impose a preventive measure in the form of detention on the suspects. Procedural leadership in the case is carried out by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Recall that the National Police is strengthening the investigation into possible abuses in the work of the territorial recruitment centers when processing bookings and when decision-making by military medical commissions. Law enforcement has already charged 76 heads of recruitment centers at various levels, and is also checking the circumstances of possible illegal booking of nearly 2,5 thousand military personnel.
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