Lubinets reports investigation into home entry in Khmelnytskyi region
The ombudsman says the case was entered in the pre-trial investigation register after his appeal. The participants and grounds for their actions remain to be established.
A pre-trial investigation has been opened into a group of unidentified people entering a private residential property in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region. Parliamentary Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets announced this on November 5, 2026. He said information had been entered in the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations following his appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
The ombudsman first publicly responded to the case on October 3. He described a video circulating online in which people in military and civilian clothing approach a private house, open a window and enter. This is Lubinets’s description; his statements did not identify the exact date of the incident or the locality.
The participants’ affiliation with territorial recruitment and social support centres has not been established. In his October statement, Lubinets explicitly said an official inquiry must determine whether they were recruitment centre staff, military personnel or other individuals.
In his November statement, he stressed that entering information in the register did not conclude the case. Investigators must identify all participants, establish the grounds for their actions and determine whether citizens’ rights were violated. The ombudsman did not disclose the case number, its legal classification or the agency conducting the investigation.
Lubinets said he would not draw premature conclusions and called for a proper legal assessment of every possible human rights violation. The development therefore marks the start of an investigation into the circumstances of the entry, not a finding of guilt against specific individuals.
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