The owner of ‘Trukha Ukraine’ has been released from the TCC in Lviv
This was reported by *Ukrainska Pravda*, citing Yaroslav Melnychuk, head of the communications department at the ‘Zakhid’ Operational Command.
His military registration details had not been updated, and he did not have a valid deferment or exemption.
In a comment to the publication, Yaroslav Melnychuk stated that Lavrynenko had been invited to the Military Registration and Enlistment Centre by police representatives to update his military registration details.
Why was he released?
After his details had been updated, Lavrynenko was served with a summons to attend a military medical examination.
He is required to undergo the medical examination at his place of military registration — the Shevchenkivskyi District Military Registration and Enlistment Centre and Joint Office in Kharkiv.
After this, Lavrynenko left the premises of the Lviv Territorial Military Registration and Enlistment Centre.
What remains unclear
‘Ukrainska Pravda’ asked the ‘Zakhid’ Operational Command how often the Lychakiv-Zaliznychnyi Military Registration and Enlistment Centre allows conscripts to attend the medical examination at their place of military registration.
The publication did not receive a response to this question.
Ukrainska Pravda also contacted the Kharkiv Regional Military Registration and Enlistment Centre and the Military Commissariat to find out whether Maksym Lavrynenko had appeared at the Shevchenkivskyi District Military Registration and Enlistment Centre and Military Commissariat to undergo a medical examination. At the time of publication, a response was still pending.
What is known about Lavrinenko’s statements
Following the incident, Lavrinenko identified himself to the police as a “journalist with the Armed Forces of Ukraine” from the “Trukha Ukraine” media group.
He later claimed that he had allegedly been detained on the “personal orders of Defence Minister Fedorov”.
There is no official confirmation of this claim in the UP article.
This story is significant not only because of the high profile of the owner of a major Telegram channel.
It also raises questions about the Military Registration and Enlistment Office’s (MREO) practices regarding conscripts who are not at their registered place of military service. In particular, it raises the question of under what circumstances a person may be granted leave to undergo a medical examination in another city, and how this is applied in practice.
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