Odessa says videos of forceful mobilization in Ukraine were ordered
The head of the Odessa regional TCC (an analogue of the military recruitment office), Yuriy Puyko, believes that videos with cases of forceful mobilization in Ukraine are filmed by order. He said this in an interview with the Ukrainian publication "Strana.ua", published on Monday, September 23.
"When citizens, healthy guys, persons liable for military service begin not only to come to the TCC itself, to pass VLK (military medical commission - Ed.), on purpose in public begin to play into the hands of the enemy and accordingly at this time on the instructions there or on the tasks someone makes a video. There are many such cases," he said.
At the same time, according to Puiko, there are fewer cases of force mobilization in Ukraine, "Gazeta.ru" specifies . In addition, the employees of the TCC in Odessa, in his opinion, feel "a sense of injustice" towards evaders, which may be the reason for such actions to those unwilling to go to war.
Earlier, on September 21, Strana.ua reported that three employees of the TCC in Kharkiv beat up a man and took him away in an unknown direction. On September 11, TCC employees in Odessa beat a man during detention. The victim lost consciousness, he was called an ambulance.
Before that, on August 17, the publication Strana.ua distributed footage of a conflict between local residents and employees of the military recruitment office in Ivano-Frankivsk region. The footage showed a crowd of people demanding to release the men who were about to be put on a service bus. As a result, the men managed to wrestle out of the hands of the employees of the TCC.
On April 16, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (term of office expired on May 20) signed a law tightening mobilization. The document specifies the categories of persons subject to mobilization and toughens penalties for evading it, but it does not contain any provisions on demobilization. Also on July 17, men aged 18 to 60 in Ukraine were obliged to carry military IDs when going out on the street so that they could be checked by patrols.
Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. At the same time Zelensky signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended its effect. Most men aged between 18 and 60 are banned from leaving the country.
