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The scientific article is devoted to highlighting the issue of the peculiarities of the pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses provided for in Article 409 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, which consist in evasion of military personnel from military service by self-mutilation, simulation of illness, submission of forged documents or direct refusal to perform military duties.

The article examines the forensic characterization of evasion of military service by self-mutilation or in another way as a separate type of military criminal offenses that have become particularly relevant in the context of armed aggression against Ukraine. The need to form a scientifically sound and practically oriented methodology for their investigation is substantiated, which is based on the construction of a forensic characterization as a holistic system of typical signs of a crime.