446 cases of fictitious mobilization uncovered in three Ukrainian regions

Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General has reported large-scale manipulation of mobilization data in Chernivtsi, Ternopil, and Zakarpattia oblasts.

Suspicions have been served on former heads of district Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers (TCK and SP), as well as members of an organized group.

According to investigators, officials at the territorial recruitment and social support centers entered false information into the Oberih registry about purportedly mobilized citizens, artificially inflating the figures for the fulfillment of mobilization targets.

“According to investigators, officials at the territorial recruitment and social support centers entered false information into the Oberih registry about purportedly mobilized citizens. In this way they artificially inflated the figures for the fulfillment of mobilization targets. In total, 446 cases of fictitious mobilization have been documented,” — the Office of the Prosecutor General said in a statement.

To enter the false data, the officials used their own qualified electronic signatures and access to the Unified State Register of Conscripts, Military Personnel, and Reservists, Oberih. The registry came to contain records of the mobilization of people who had not actually been called up, or of those who were already serving in the military and could not be mobilized again.

In Bukovyna, a 35-year-old former head of one of the district TCK and SP centers allegedly entered false mobilization records for 99 people into Oberih between January and March 2026. To do so, he used, among other things, fictitious personal data and information about active-duty servicemembers.

In Ternopil oblast, a 39-year-old former head of one of the district TCK and SP centers allegedly registered 18 people as purportedly mobilized in the same manner in March 2026. The data entered into the registry included information about active-duty servicemembers, as well as about a servicemember who had already died by that point and a servicemember who had been held in Russian captivity for an extended period.

Law enforcement recorded the largest scale of the scheme in Zakarpattia: there, a then-36-year-old deputy head of one of the district TCK and SP centers organized a group that included the acting head of the center, the acting deputy head, and operators of one of its units. Members of the group entered false data into the registry about individuals who had already been mobilized, processing fictitious repeat medical board examinations and new call-ups for them. A total of 329 fictitious mobilizations were processed in this way.

Suspicions have been served on two former heads of district TCK and SP centers in Chernivtsi and Ternopil oblasts, as well as on seven members of the organized group in Zakarpattia. The suspects’ actions have been charged under a number of articles of Ukraine’s Criminal Code, and pre-trial restrictions have already been imposed on most of them.