Ukrainian Domestic — 2026-06-09

Rada Bill Proposes Up to 12 Years Prison for TCC Officials Who Illegally Detain Civilians During Mobilization

BLUFLegislative momentum against TCC abuses is building across multiple bills, but absent Servant of the People endorsement, command-accountability provisions face an uncertain path through committee.

MP Heorhiy Mazurashu registered bill No. 15303 in the Verkhovna Rada on June 8, proposing 5–7 year sentences for TCC and Military Law Enforcement Service officials who unlawfully detain persons or seize phones during mobilization 1. Supervisors who issue illegal detention orders face 5–8 years; aggravated violations involving minors, group conspiracy, or physical violence carry 7–12 years with occupational disqualification 1. The bill, co-sponsored by MPs Bezuhla, Dmytrieva, Razumkov, and Mykysha, would also require the State Bureau of Investigation to automatically open criminal proceedings when video evidence of TCC misconduct appears online or in media 2.

Analysis
The automatic SBI-trigger provision is the bill's operative innovation: video evidence of TCC misconduct compels investigation without requiring a victim to navigate a hostile bureaucracy. Related bill No. 12442 carries a Committee on Law Enforcement recommendation for full adoption, establishing legislative appetite that No. 15303 seeks to extend to command accountability. Servant of the People and the president's office have not publicly endorsed the new bill. All sourcing is derivative with no original document review, leaving committee status unverified. Low confidence in the bill's trajectory reflects fragmentary sourcing and no observable floor scheduling indicator. The cross-party sponsor composition may be optimized for public optics during a wartime election ban rather than ruling coalition floor support.

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