Dmytro Koziatynsky is a combat medic of the "Wolves da Vinci" battalion, a veteran, organizer of "cardboard protests" against NABU restrictions a year ago, and against the resignation of Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov on July 16. After the action, someone from the command began investigating which unit he currently serves in. The answer is simple: none — Koziatynsky was discharged from the Armed Forces a year ago.
What happened — according to Mykhailova
Alina Mykhailova, head of the medical service of the "Ulf" battalion "Wolves da Vinci" and a Kyiv City Council deputy, said that she was personally called by the Unmanned Systems Forces Command (USFC) and they were "very urgently" trying to find out where exactly Koziatynsky was serving.
"Repression" in 2026 in the army is when you get called from the USFC with a very urgent desire to find out which unit a guy is serving in — the same guy who writes on the internet about protest actions and calls people to join.
— Alina Mykhailova, Facebook
According to her, the call was clearly not to present him with a certificate. Mykhailova added: the fact that the command didn't know about Koziatynsky's demobilization a year ago is symptomatic: "Just as the command often doesn't know what's really happening on the positions, it also doesn't have an accurate understanding of who has already long been discharged from the military."
Volunteer Sergiy Sternenko, who was an adviser to Defense Minister Fedorov from January 2026 and himself participated in the protests, also wrote about this incident.
Madyar: "they created a sensation thoughtlessly"
Commander of the USB Robert "Madyar" Brovdi responded with restraint but didn't dismiss it. He promised to personally clarify: who exactly from the medical service of the group, with what purpose, in what tone and on whose orders was interested in the former serviceman.
Based on preliminary information, they created a sensation thoughtlessly, not based on facts of pressure. The media, as is typical of the trend, exaggerated what they heard. We don't have those kind of fighters here who would tolerate pressure and stay silent.
— Robert "Madyar" Brovdi
At the same time, Brovdi clearly distinguished positions: in the USB "no military repression is tolerated, just as no other violations." He also invited people to contact directly through a direct communication channel if there are facts of abuse, violence or corruption.
Why this is more important than one phone call
Koziatynsky is not a random figure. In 2025, it was he who organized protests that stopped the authorities' attempt to limit the independence of NABU and SAP. Back then, activism won. On July 16, 2026, he brought people out again — this time to Franko Square, where more than a thousand people gathered in Kyiv and actions took place in Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipro and Chernivtsi.
- Koziatynsky is a veteran, not an active serviceman: there are no legal grounds for military pressure.
- The call came to his former unit — meaning information was sought through official channels.
- Madyar did not confirm the fact of pressure, but did not reject it either: he promised a check with specific questions — who, why, whose order.
The precedent here is not in the phone call itself, but in the logic: if the command reflexively searches for "where" a person is serving when they publicly criticize personnel decisions — this is already a signal of an institutional reflex, regardless of whether anyone intended to punish.
If Madyar publishes the results of his investigation with names and circumstances — this will be a real precedent of accountability within the military. If not — silence itself will be the answer.
