Three employees of TCC beat up and took away a man in Kharkiv

Three employees of the territorial recruitment center in Kharkiv have beaten up a man and taken him to an unknown location. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian edition "Strana.ua" on Saturday, September 21.

The video attached to the message shows a man lying on the ground while the military officers beat him. Then the man is pushed into a passenger car and taken away. Local residents watching the scene demanded that the man be left alone.

The TCC officer, in turn, said that the man allegedly did not respond to the military commander's request to show documents and tried to run away, and then attacked the serviceman.

Earlier, on September 11, in Odessa, TCC officers beat a man during detention. The victim lost consciousness, he was called an ambulance.

Prior to that, on August 30, in Odessa, TCC employees and police officers in search of potential conscripts fought with local residents who refused to submit documents to them for inspection. On August 22, employees of the territorial manning center in Odessa forcibly brought a citizen suffering from dementia to the military enlistment office and declared fit for service. It was reported that the victim is a pupil of an orphanage, can not even write and read.

Before that, on August 17, the Strana.ua news and analysis website circulated footage of a conflict between local residents and employees of the military enlistment office in Ivano-Frankivsk Region. The footage shows 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 employees of the TCC.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20, signed the law on tightening mobilization on April 16. The document specifies the categories of persons subject to mobilization and toughens penalties for evading it.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended it. Most men aged between 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country.