Ukrainians who updated their data started receiving summonses to Territorial Recruitment Centers through ‘Reserv+’ for violating military registration rules

Ukrainian citizens subject to military duty, who updated their personal data by July 17, began receiving messages in the “Reserve+” app instructing them to report to territorial recruitment centers due to alleged violations of military registration rules.

This was reported by lawyer Roman Symutin.

Symutin shared an example in which his clients, who installed the “Reserve+” app and initially received confirmation that their data had been successfully updated, later started receiving the following message: “Violations of military registration rules have been identified. Please contact the territorial recruitment center at your place of registration or residence to clarify the data.”

“Frankly, this is the biggest scam by the recruitment centers I’ve ever seen, apart from schemes like MMM,” the lawyer commented. He explained that these messages, sent via the “Reserve+” app to notify of supposed violations in military registration, compel individuals to visit a recruitment center. This message appears both in the mobile app, which men show to recruitment center staff or the police, and in the Unified State Register of Draftees, Conscripts, and Reservists, as well as the “Obereg” database used by recruitment center staff to check registration statuses in public places or at checkpoints. Even if the man had responsibly and promptly updated his personal data, this fact would no longer matter. When checking military documents and cross-referencing them with the information in the Unified State Register, recruitment center staff and police will see the latest note indicating that violations of the registration rules have been identified, and that the individual failed to address them by visiting the recruitment center. The next step in this “scam” involves the individual being detained and forcibly brought to the recruitment center.

Lawyer Rostyslav Kravets confirmed that recruitment centers are mobilizing those who updated their data on time but failed to appear for a military medical commission. In such cases, recruitment centers send these individuals for medical examinations, and those who pass are then sent to training centers. According to Kravets, he has increasingly encountered situations where individuals go to the recruitment center simply to update their data, only to be immediately mobilized.

Previously, media reported that the option to defer from mobilization through the “Diia” app was closed until November 15. MP Fedyenko suggested that this was due to misuse. Additionally, it was reported that the Cabinet of Ministers intends to require 17-year-old conscripts to register through “Reserve+” or the territorial recruitment centers.