More than 500,000 evaders wanted in Ukraine

Ukrainian territorial manning centers (TMCs, an analogue of military enlistment offices) have filed about 500,000 applications to search for persons liable for military service on suspicion of evading service. This was stated on January 9 by Natalia Kindrativ, the officer of the communications department of the command of land forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

"Over 500,000 persons <...> have been put [by military commissions] on the wanted list for police authorities," she said in an interview with the Kyiv FM radio station, a fragment published by Strana.ua.

Kindrativ recalled that the police have the right to detain wanted citizens and hand them over to the TCC. In addition, they can be deprived of driving license in absentia or fined.

Earlier, on January 8, TCC officers in Lviv, in western Ukraine, forcibly mobilized a man, beating him on his hands and feet. The footage published by the publication shows three men in military uniform and one in civilian clothes, who forcefully try to push the resisting man into their car, standing near the garbage site.

Before that, on January 4, in the Kiev-controlled part of Zaporizhzhya region, military officers used gas against mobilized men who had barricaded themselves in a branch of the TCC. It was specified that the officers resorted to such a measure because they could not break the door behind which the Ukrainians were hiding.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. Then the President of the country Volodymyr Zelensky (powers expired on May 20, 2024) signed a decree on general mobilization. Later, the Verkhovna Rada repeatedly extended its effect. Most men between the ages of 18 and 60 are forbidden to leave the country. In April 2024, the head of the Kiev regime approved the law on tougher mobilization.