In Odesa, the State Bureau of Investigation was ordered to investigate a report of a detention at the TCC

The court ordered the State Bureau of Investigations to register a complaint filed by a resident of Odesa who alleged that he had been unlawfully detained and held for nearly five days at the TCC. The man claimed that he was forcibly taken to the recruitment center despite having been exempted from military registration due to health reasons. 

The Peresypsky District Court of Odessa issued the corresponding ruling.  

 According to the court’s ruling dated October 19, 2026, the man filed a complaint with the State Bureau of Investigations’ territorial office in Mykolaiv regarding possible criminal offenses. However, the information was not entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations, so his representative appealed the investigators’ inaction.

According to the complainant, he had been deemed medically unfit for military service since childhood. In 2020 and 2023, he was removed from the military registry due to health reasons. In July 2024, the man updated his information via an app and subsequently received notification that he was still on the military registration list, along with a notice from the Territorial Military Registration and Enlistment Office (TMREO) that he was wanted.

In February 2026, the Odesa District Administrative Court had already ruled that the actions of the relevant Military Registration and Enlistment Office—specifically, entering information into the registry regarding the man’s violation of military registration rules and issuing a warrant for his arrest—were unlawful. 

According to the petitioner, on March 14, 2026, near his place of residence in Odesa, individuals in military uniform forcibly took him to a building on Leontovych Street and then transported him to the TCC. The man claimed that his communication devices were confiscated, the proper documents were not drawn up, and he was detained for nearly five days. According to him, he was released after repeated appeals by his attorney and the submission of medical documents.

In his complaint, the man requested an investigation into the circumstances of a possible abuse of authority, failure to comply with a court ruling, and other violations of the law.

The court partially granted the complaint and ordered the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) to enter the information set forth in the complaint dated October 7, 2026, into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations (ERDR). The court denied the requests to compel investigators to initiate a pre-trial investigation and to question officials. The ruling is not subject to appeal.

Анна Літман