In Odessa, a man challenged his mobilization due to a questionable medical examination

In Odesa, a man attempted to have his mobilization order overturned in court, claiming that he had not undergone a military medical examination. However, the registry listed him as fit for service. 

This is evidenced by a ruling from the Odesa District Administrative Court.

The plaintiff stated that on March 6, 2026, he did not undergo a military medical examination; however, in the Reserve+ app, he saw information about the examination on that day and the finding that he was fit for military service. The man suggested that this information might have been entered into the Unified State Registry of Conscripts, Persons Subject to Military Service, and Reservists based on false data.

He asked the court to declare the military authority’s actions unlawful, to remove the information about his medical examination from the registry, and to revoke the order for mobilization and assignment to a military unit.

Representatives of the defendant denied the claim. According to them, on March 6, police officers brought the man to the Territorial Recruitment Center because he was wanted on an administrative warrant for violating military registration rules. After the medical examination, no grounds for deferment or exemption were found, so on the same day he was drafted into military service by Order No. 65.

The court found that in April, the man was listed in the “Reserve+” system as a military servicemember who had been removed from military registration, with the date listed as March 6. At the same time, the Izmail City Central Hospital stated in a letter dated April 29 that the man had not undergone a medical examination at that medical facility.

However, the judge emphasized that the absence of medical documents at a specific hospital does not prove that the medical examination was not conducted at all. According to the case file, the documents regarding the medical examination were attached to the serviceman’s personnel file and forwarded to the commander of the military unit. The judges emphasized that a medical examination may be conducted at the Territorial Medical Center and may be reviewed and overturned by regular military medical commissions. In other words, in the judges’ opinion, the man should have appealed to the regular military medical commission in order to challenge the conclusion of the ad hoc medical commission at the TCC, but he failed to do so. The court noted that Regulation No. 402 does not provide for the possibility of directly challenging the decision of the Medical Examination Commission at the Territorial Medical Center in court without first following the prescribed procedure for its review. As a result, the judge dismissed the claim in its entirety. 

Анна Літман