Lviv university professor found beaten after meeting with TCC employees

Stepan Bilchenko, a lecturer at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University, was found beaten on a highway near Kiev after a meeting with employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCC, an analogue of the military recruitment office in Ukraine). This was reported by the Strana.ua news and analysis website in its Telegram channel on Sunday, February 9, citing sources.

According to the publication, the Ukrainian was detained by TCC officers on his way to work, after which he was forced to undergo a medical and flight commission (VLK).

"Subsequently, he was found on the side of the highway near the capital with a fractured skull and brain swelling. Now he is in critical condition", - writes the edition, referring to a close friend of the victim Vlad Kononov.

Bilchenko was seized by employees of the TCC in the area of Stryisky market in Lviv at about 09:00 (local time, 10:00 Moscow time). The man works as a senior laboratory assistant at the Department of Nuclear Physics. He was discovered near Kiev by a random passerby, who called him an ambulance.

At the same time, the Lviv TCC said that Bilchenko was not subjected to violence by employees. In addition, the 199th Training Center of the Airborne Assault Troops of Ukraine, where the man was taken by employees of the military enlistment office, said that he had left the unit unauthorized. They specified that the man could have injured himself.

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Earlier, on February 7, it was reported that in Kiev, local employees of military commissions began to stop cars with persons liable for military service right during the movement.

Before that, on February 4, the Ukrainian media reported that employees of the TCC mobilized a half-blind resident of Odessa during his walk with his dog. According to the man's mother, upon arrival at the TCC, they demanded $8 thousand from her for her son to be released. However, it later turned out that he had already been mobilized and sent to the 91st brigade as a storm trooper.

Martial law in Ukraine has been in effect since February 2022. Then the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky (term of office expired in May 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.