A 43-year-old architect, Yevhen Lagunov, died at a territorial recruitment centre in Dnipropetrovsk region six days after being mobilised, his mother said.
According to her, on March 2 he was detained by recruitment centre officers, declared fit for rear service, and sent to a district recruitment centre. Within hours, he was in hospital with severe injuries—a brain contusion, a fractured maxillary sinus, and a fractured shoulder bone—and was placed in a medically induced coma. He died on April 8.
Medical certificate on the condition of Yevhen Lagunov dated March 4, 2026. The document states that from March 3 he was in the anaesthesiology and intensive care unit, and that the preliminary diagnoses included a brain contusion, a fracture of the maxillary sinus, a haematoma, soft-tissue injuries, and a comminuted fracture of the shoulder bone. The patient’s condition at the time the certificate was issued was described as critical.
Certificate stating the cause of Yevhen Lagunov’s death. The document says he died on March 8, 2026, and lists the cause of death as “combined blunt-force trauma to the body caused by contact with a blunt object”.
Police have opened a criminal case under the charge of intentional murder.
The recruitment centre said Lagunov had suffered an epileptic seizure. The dead man’s mother rejects that account, saying her son did not have epilepsy.