10 August 2025
(Photo: State Border Guard Service.)
Border guards detained a man in Odesa region who tried to leave Ukraine using forged military documents.
According to the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, at the Palanka-Mayaky-Udobne checkpoint, border guards of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi detachment detected a 44-year-old resident of Mykolaiv region who was trying to illegally travel to Moldova.
The man tried to realize his intention through an acquaintance who advised him to impersonate a military man going on vacation abroad. For 12 thousand US dollars, he purchased forged military registration documents, an extract from an order to grant leave, and a vacation ticket.
However, during the conversation with the border guards, the man could not name his commander or his colleagues, and the unit in which he was allegedly serving was disbanded.
A protocol was drawn up against him under Article 204-1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine "Illegal crossing or attempt to illegally cross the state border". The case was sent to court.
Border guards also reported to the National Police that signs of a crime under Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Forgery of documents, seals, stamps and forms, sale or use of forged documents, seals, stamps" had been detected.
Thus, if proven guilty in court, a fictitious military officer faces a fine of two hundred to five hundred tax-free minimum incomes or administrative arrest for up to fifteen days with confiscation of the instruments and means of committing the offense for attempting to illegally cross the border.
As for forgery of documents, law enforcement officers must find out who is forging them, and then the maximum penalty for the perpetrator may reach five years in prison.
By the way, the use of a knowingly forged document is also punishable by a fine of up to fifty tax-free minimum incomes or probationary supervision for up to two years, or restraint of liberty for the same period.
Кирило Бойко