A blind man in Odesa was detained by the military recruitment center for almost five days.

In Odesa, a blind man reported that he was forcibly taken to the recruitment center and held for almost five days.

According to the man, he has a disability due to childhood blindness, and, according to his documents, he was removed from military service. In July 2024, he updated his information using a mobile app, which at that time showed that he was not on the list. However, in July 2025, the man discovered that he had been re-registered and declared a wanted person.

He turned to the Odesa District Administrative Court, which in February 2026 ruled that the inclusion of information about violations of military registration rules and the declaration of the man as a wanted person were illegal. However, on March 14, he was detained in the Kyiv district of Odesa by people in military uniform, who, according to his statement, did not have body cameras and ignored his documents.

The man claims that he was forcibly taken to a military recruitment center, where he spent almost five days, and his phone was confiscated. He was later released. After this, he contacted the State Bureau of Investigation, but the information from his report was not entered into the Unified Register of Criminal Cases. Through his lawyer, he challenged the inaction of the law enforcement officials in court.

The Odesa District Court of Pereyspol partially satisfied the complaint and ordered the SBI to register information based on the applicant's statement regarding potential criminal offenses, including failure to comply with a court decision, misleading the court, concealing a crime, and exceeding the authority of a military official. The court did not order the SBI to classify the described circumstances under specific articles of the Criminal Code, stating that this is the responsibility of the investigating officer during the pre-trial investigation.