{"id":27234,"date":"2026-08-15T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2026-08-15T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:02:27","slug":"vyrok-feikova-evakuatsiya-viyskovykh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/suspilstvo\/vyrok-feikova-evakuatsiya-viyskovykh\/","title":{"rendered":"A woman has been convicted in Chernivtsi for staging a fake \u00abevacuation\u00bb of military personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"news-lead\">In Chernivtsi, a 42-year-old local woman has been sentenced to three years\u00ab imprisonment for defrauding five relatives of servicemen who went missing during the war. According to the public prosecutor\u2019s office, the woman, posing as a volunteer, promised to evacuate their relatives from the \u00bbgrey zone\u2019 and embezzled over 75,000 hryvnias.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-summary-box\">\n<p><strong>Briefly about the main points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The court sentenced a woman from Chernivtsi to three years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>The victims were five female relatives of soldiers reported missing in action.<\/li>\n<li>A woman swindled more than 75,000 UAH under the pretext of an \u00abevacuation\u00bb.<\/li>\n<li>She used fake profiles and photos of soldiers to carry out the scam.<\/li>\n<li>Official missing person enquiries and information for families are free of charge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>How the scheme worked<\/h2>\n<p>Prosecutors proved that between November 2025 and January 2026, the woman created fake accounts on Facebook and messaging apps. She searched for posts by families who were looking for missing servicemen and contacted them posing as a volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed that the soldier had been found alive, but that he was in a serious condition and needed to be evacuated urgently from the \u00abgrey zone\u00bb. To build credibility, she used photographs of soldiers found on their relatives\u2019 social media pages.<\/p>\n<h2>After the first payment, she demanded further transfers<\/h2>\n<p>The woman asked for money to be transferred to her to \u00aborganise the evacuation\u00bb. Once she had received the money, she would invent further excuses \u2013 in particular, claiming that the amount was insufficient \u2013 and persuade her relatives to pay again.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution in the case was led by prosecutors from the Chernivtsi City District Prosecutor\u2019s Office. The court found the woman guilty of <em>Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Where should families of missing persons turn?<\/h2>\n<p>The Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasises that the state does not charge a fee for searching for missing persons, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/suspilstvo\/ukrayincy-zvilneni-z-rosijskogo-polonu-186\/\">prisoner exchange<\/a> or the provision of official information. Demanding payment for such services or for a supposedly guaranteed evacuation is a sign of a fraudulent scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry advises people not to disclose personal data to third parties, not to pay for \u00abassistance\u00bb, to keep a record of any suspicious correspondence and to pass it on to the police. A unified information platform run by the Ministry of Internal Affairs is available to families, and the hotline for the Commissioner for Persons Missing under Special Circumstances is 1698.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman set up fake accounts, promised to evacuate soldiers from the \u00abgrey zone\u00bb and defrauded five female relatives of over 75,000 UAH.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":207433346,"featured_media":27233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_description":"\u0416\u0456\u043d\u043a\u0430 \u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u0444\u0435\u0439\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0456 \u0430\u043a\u0430\u0443\u043d\u0442\u0438, \u043e\u0431\u0456\u0446\u044f\u043b\u0430 \u0435\u0432\u0430\u043a\u0443\u0430\u0446\u0456\u044e \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445 \u0437\u0456 \u00ab\u0441\u0456\u0440\u043e\u0457 \u0437\u043e\u043d\u0438\u00bb \u0442\u0430 \u043e\u0448\u0443\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u043f\u2019\u044f\u0442\u044c\u043e\u0445 \u0440\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0447\u043e\u043a \u043d\u0430 \u043f\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0434 75 \u0442\u0438\u0441. \u0433\u0440\u043d.","rank_math_title":"\u0428\u0430\u0445\u0440\u0430\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0437 \u0435\u0432\u0430\u043a\u0443\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0454\u044e \u0432\u0456\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0445: \u0432\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043a \u0443 \u0427\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0456\u0432\u0446\u044f\u0445","rank_math_focus_keyword":"\u0428\u0430\u0445\u0440\u0430\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e","td_subtitle":"","subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[806778],"tags":[806775],"class_list":["post-27234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-suspilstvo","tag-806775"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207433346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27235,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions\/27235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}