Welcome to Investigative Stories from Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent's newsletter that walks you through the most prominent investigations of the past week. If you are fond of in-depth journalism that exposes war crimes, corruption, and abuse of power across state organizations in Ukraine and beyond, subscribe to our investigative newsletter. Almost 900 men in Volyn Oblast alone could have illegally fled Ukraine to avoid mobilization with assistance from local NGOs.
A range of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and charitable foundations, including an NGO founded by a lawmaker from the Servant of the People party and the foundation run by the former deputy head of Volyn Oblast Administration, have included several thousand men liable for military service in the Shliakh (Path) system over the two years of full-scale war, some of whom have never come back home [Shliakh system allows male drivers or volunteers to legally cross the border under martial law -