A cancer patient's tumor used to help a draft dodger: doctor exposed in cynical mobilization scheme
A urologist sold not only medical certificates to draft dodgers, but also "evidence"
In Zakarpattia, law enforcement officers exposed a urologist at a district hospital who, according to investigators, was selling fake medical diagnoses to men subject to military service to obtain deferments from mobilization. This was reported on 19 May 2026 by the Zakarpattia Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
According to law enforcement, the doctor offered men a way to avoid conscription allegedly for health reasons. To make the fabricated diagnosis look more plausible, the urologist gave one of the men a real stone that had previously been removed from the urinary tract of another patient — a woman with severe oncological pathology.
During diagnostics, this biomaterial was to be presented as his own to confirm the fake illness. In fact, it was an attempt to create a medical basis for preparing documents that could grant the right to a mobilization deferment. The case documents two instances of money being handed over directly in the doctor’s office. Initially the doctor received 100 dollars as an advance for preparing the documents. Later, according to the investigation, he was given another 300 dollars — for the cancer patient’s stone and the finalization of the medical record.
Officially the prosecutor’s office does not name the suspect’s surname or the medical institution where he works. At the same time, according to ZAXID.NET sources in law enforcement, it concerns urologist Mykhailo Yershov of the Berehove Hospital named after Linner.
The medic is charged with bribery combined with extortion under Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The article’s sanction provides for from five to 10 years of imprisonment, a ban on holding certain positions or engaging in certain activities for up to three years, as well as the confiscation of property.
Previously we wrote:
- In the Mykolaiv region, a military medical commission doctor demanded money from a wounded serviceman for “discharge”
- A million from his grandfather and an SUV: a military medical commission doctor from Mykolaiv bought a Land Cruiser
- Evasion for money: in Mykolaiv medics sold “disability” during the war
- Almost 70 searches across Ukraine: the investigation reached a hospital in the Korabelnyi district of Mykolaiv
- Under the guise of treatment – a scheme for draft evaders: a doctor will be tried in the Mykolaiv region
