A woman who received benefits for her son, who was allegedly missing, will stand trial in the Carpathian region

Law enforcement officials have charged a resident of the Kolomyia District with fraud for illegally receiving her son’s military pay over the course of a year. According to a statement released by the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Police on Tuesday, July 7, the man was actually at home in the Carpathian region after leaving his combat post without authorization.

The investigation established that the man from the Carpathian region was mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine in March 2023. A year later, he transferred to a mountain assault unit, but that same month, while carrying out combat missions on the front lines, he fled his position and secretly returned to the Ivano-Frankivsk region. 

Later, the soldier learned that, due to a mix-up, he had officially been declared missing in action, which he immediately told his mother. Although her son was hiding at home, the woman decided to take advantage of the situation and filed a request with the unit commander demanding that her son’s financial allowance be paid to her, providing her own bank account for this purpose.

Between June 2024 and May 2025, the state mistakenly transferred a total of 800,000 hryvnias to the suspect’s bank card. The woman is currently charged with large-scale fraud under Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The penalty for this offense is imprisonment for a term of three to eight years.

This was reported by the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Police.

In Kyiv, a scheme to evade mobilization involving a former official was uncovered.

 The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the police have uncovered eight schemes to evade mobilization across Ukraine.