The end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 brought unpleasant surprises for the opposing counsel in the case of Dmytro Ryumshyn, the former commander of the 155th Brigade.

Attorney Andriy Yosipov reported this on Facebook.

On December 29, 2025, the information was entered into the Unified Register of Pre-trial Investigations, and a pre-trial investigation was launched regarding the prosecution of a person known to be innocent, combined with the fabrication of evidence by the prosecution.

The investigation and the prosecutor’s office had previously based their charges on the allegation that Ryumshin had allegedly ignored “warnings” from the SBU’s military counterintelligence and sent the “wrong” people to France for training. The main piece of evidence was a letter from the SBU’s Military Counterintelligence Directorate dated September 19, 2024, which listed the names of soldiers who were “not recommended” for deployment.

However, this “September” letter includes the names of military personnel who, at the time it was written, were still civilians. According to TCC documents, they were mobilized and became military personnel only in October 2024.

A criminal case had previously been opened for official forgery, investigating the appearance of this “letter from the future,” which was never actually received by the unit.

The new case represents a different level of liability. The investigation was critically lacking evidence that Ryumshin was aware of the “unreliable” military personnel. Without this, the commander’s intent could not be proven, and the case would have no prospects.

“What does a team of investigators and prosecutors do when there is no evidence? They decide to fabricate it—and to do so through the SBU. In other words, the forgery of documents here is not a mistake by the perpetrator; it is an instrument of a crime aimed at the unlawful deprivation of a person’s liberty and bringing them to justice,” the statement reads.

The Poltava Territorial Office of the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) has been tasked with investigating this “phenomenon.” The objectivity of such an investigation is in doubt due to a potential conflict of interest, so a proposal to change the pre-trial investigation agency is being prepared.

“However, one thing I can say for certain: for the investigators and prosecutors handling the Ryumshin case, the new year 2026 will not be an easy one. No one has repealed the law of the boomerang, especially when it’s flying alongside the Criminal Code,” the attorney emphasized. 

On November 24, 2025, the Kyiv Court of Appeals partially granted the appeal filed on behalf of Dmytro Ryumshin and reduced the bail amount from 10 million to 8 million hryvnias as an alternative to pretrial detention.

As a reminder, the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv extended the pretrial detention order for Dmytro Ryumshyn, former commander of the 155th Brigade “Anna Kyivska,” until July 20, but reduced the bail amount to 27 million hryvnias.