The Lviv District Administrative Court granted the claim of the wife of a serviceman who died in the performance of his duties and canceled the refusal of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to pay one -time financial assistance. The court obliged the department to re -consider the documents submitted, taking into account the position of the court.
According to a decision published in July 2025, the plaintiff in the case was a widow of a serviceman - a driver of a small platoon of one of the military units, who died in 2022 in the Bakhmut area in Donetsk region.
According to the initial conclusion, the death of a soldier came as a result of careless handling of weapons. It was on the basis of this act of official investigation and the decision to close the criminal proceedings that the Ministry of Defense Commission in November 2024 made a decision to refuse to pay compensation in the amount of UAH 15 million.
However, as stated in the court decision, the Central Military Medical Commission of the Armed Forces subsequently canceled the conclusions on the careless handling of weapons, recognizing the cause and effect relationship of death with the performance of official duties.
The widow representative stressed that there is no court decision in the case file to bring the victim to administrative responsibility. Therefore, the commission had no reason to believe that death came as a result of an administrative offense, which automatically excludes the payment of assistance.
The case was considered by Judge Natalia Kuhar, who concluded that the decision of the Ministry of Defense was not based on proper evidence. As a result, she canceled the protocol, which contained the refusal of payment and obliged the Ministry of Defense to re -consider the documents, taking into account all the circumstances.
The court's decision has not come into force at the moment and may be appealed.
