He wanted to "warn his own", but they warned him: sentenced to 5 years for posts about the military recruitment center on Viber

Recently Poltava Regional TCC and SP reported that Shyshaky District Court of Poltava Oblast found a local resident guilty of committing the crime provided for in Part 1 of Article 114-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – obstructing the lawful activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during a special period. The case concerns the dissemination in Viber of information about the locations of mobile groups of the TCC and the police.

As established in the case, during July – December 2025 the man was an active participant in a Viber community, where he systematically posted messages about the locations of checkpoints, movements of official vehicles and the conduct of mobilization activities in Myrhorod district. According to the investigation, this reduced the effectiveness of the mobile groups and helped conscripts avoid contact with representatives of the TCC.

The defendant reached a plea agreement with the prosecutor, which the court approved. When determining the punishment, it was taken into account that the man had no previous convictions, has two minor children, is positively characterized and transferred 10,000 hryvnias in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The court sentenced him to a punishment in the form of 5 years of imprisonment, however released him from actual serving with a probationary period of 1 year. During this time the convict is obliged to report to the probation authority, notify about any change of residence and not travel abroad without permission.

Separately, the court applied a special confiscation: the mobile phone from which the publications were made was seized and transferred to state ownership.

Thus, the “innocent” messages in a messenger by those trying to disrupt or weaken mobilization measures increasingly end not with likes in a chat, but with a court sentence.

For Mykolaiv region such a story is not unfamiliar either. Korabelov.info has already written about a similar case, where the foreman of “Mykolaivvodokanal” was convicted for a Viber message about the location of mobile checkpoints of the TCC. There the court similarly qualified the actions under Part 1 of Article 114-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

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