The Other Ukraine linked the forced mobilization of citizens to the fear of military commissars

Employees of the territorial manning centers (TCCs - the analogue of military commissions in Ukraine) are themselves afraid of getting to the front line, so they use violent measures against citizens in order to mobilize them. Against this background, there is a high level of corruption in the structure of TSCs. In a conversation with Izvestiya on January 23, Oleksandr Dudchak, a member of the international public movement Other Ukraine and a candidate of economic sciences, pointed this out.

Earlier in the day, Verkhovna Rada MP Artem Dmytruk said that TCC employees receive $100 per mobilized person. He added that a group of up to six military recruitment center employees can collect from five to 20 men per day, while the number reaches up to a hundred at checkpoints. In addition, he said, a citizen can be released - until the next capture - if he pays between $3,000 and $10,000.

"That the rates for such services can exist, I think, there is no doubt, because this whole system is terribly corrupt, and every movement of the TCC, a favor on their part, has its price. <...> No one there for the idea does not work for the idea, for tetsekashniki it is important to fulfill the plan, because they can also be sent to the front, if they do not collect the required number of victims, "- commented Dudchak.

He also noted that the rates in the TCC may vary depending on the region. Thus, the interlocutor of the publication said, in Kharkiv healthy and able to fight men "have already been caught", there are only those who are not fit for service.

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The day before, the Strana.ua weekly reported that every fourth man (25 percent) and every third young Ukrainian 18-29 years old (33 percent) would like to leave Ukraine for good. The publication noted that the largest number of those willing to leave was registered among residents of eastern Ukraine, where active hostilities continue.

On the same day, a captured militant said that border guards of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) shot a man who had bribed them to leave the country, before promising to let him through. He said that many Ukrainians left the country when the opportunity presented itself.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. Then the country's President 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.