Man dies at military medical commission in Dnipro after forced mobilization

A Dnipro resident named Natalia reported the death of her husband Fyodor Koshelnyak at a military medical commission on May 5 — after, according to her, he was forcibly detained by TCC officers right on the street in front of her eyes.

According to Natalia, the incident occurred at 8:45 a.m. near a parking area in the upper part of Tunnelna Balka in Dnipro, at 19 Panikakhy Street. About 10 TCC officers ran out of the bushes and, without identifying themselves or asking for documents, surrounded Fyodor and attacked him. The woman says she tried to intervene but was pushed to the ground.

The military commissars, according to Natalia, grabbed her husband and forcibly put him on a bus that had pulled out from the bushes, holding him by his arms and legs. When the woman tried to go around the vehicle to photograph its license plate, one of the officers attempted to take her phone, claiming it was a criminal offense. Then another bus arrived from the direction of the road, and Fyodor was taken away to the military medical commission. By 10:48 a.m. he was already dead.

Natalia believes her husband died as a result of the military commissars’ actions and the doctors’ negligence. According to her, no one informed her of her husband’s death, and her requests to be let in and provided with information were ignored. The widow wrote about this on her Instagram page, calling to “punish those who failed to provide timely assistance” to the man.

The Dnipropetrovsk regional TCC presented a different version of events. The agency stated that Fyodor Koshelnyak “was in violation of military registration requirements and was subject to conscription for military service.”

“During the military medical commission, the military-age citizen felt unwell, and an ambulance crew was called for him. The medical workers who arrived spent 45 minutes providing emergency care, after which they pronounced the citizen dead,” the TCC stated on Facebook.

A formal investigation has been launched and a criminal case opened in connection with the death.

This is not the first such incident in the region. Previously, a mobilized architect died near Dnipro from severe injuries. The TCC stated that he had suffered an epileptic seizure, while the deceased’s mother insists her son had no history of epilepsy. In addition, a resident of Kryvyi Rih also reported the death of her husband at the local TCC. The Dnipropetrovsk regional territorial recruitment and social support center confirmed the death but stated that, according to preliminary data, the man died of heart failure.