Office of the Military Ombudsman
The Office of the Military Ombudsman is an independent institutional mechanism within the system of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, established to protect the rights of service members and their families. It was created in 2017 on the initiative of the then-Commissioner for Human Rights, and operates under Ukraine's legislation on the legal regime of martial law and democratic civilian oversight of the Armed Forces. The office handles complaints, monitors conditions of military service and represents servicemembers' interests in dealings with state bodies. The Military Ombudsman is appointed by the Verkhovna Rada on the nomination of the Human Rights Commissioner.
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Anti-Corruption Center says Ukrainian investigators knew of alleged crimes in Skelia regiment since March
Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Center (ЦПК) has alleged that the State Bureau of Investigation (ДБР) may have known since at least March 2026 about alleged crimes in the 425th Separate Assault Regiment "Skelia" but failed to open pretrial investigations until after a Babel media investigation was published in June. According to ЦПК, the Office of the Military Ombudsman sent eight letters to the ДБР and the Office of the Prosecutor General between March and June 2026 describing possible offenses including torture, physical violence and failure to provide medical aid resulting in death; in six of those cases the ДБР declined to open pretrial investigations, citing insufficient grounds.