Musk drew attention to the footage of the abduction of a courier by employees of the shopping mall in Ukraine

On May 4, Elon Musk, an entrepreneur and head of the Department of Efficiency of the US government (DOGE), drew attention to a video in which employees of the Shopping mall (a territorial recruitment center, an analogue of military enlistment offices in Ukraine) kidnapped a courier for the purpose of mobilization. He wrote about this on the social network X.

"Thousands of videos demonstrate how Ukraine is forcibly encouraging men to fight in [a conflict] that it cannot win," one social network user wrote.

Musk responded to this statement with a comment consisting of two exclamation marks.

The day before, the Other Ukraine movement reported that employees of the military enlistment office in Lutsk, Ukraine, grabbed a delivery courier on the street and pushed him into a minibus against his will, his bike remained on the street.

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The authorities explain this decision by the "principle of social justice"

Earlier, on April 12, Igor Shvaika, deputy head of the Ukrainian recruiting center for the territorial defense forces, said on the local TV channel First that Ukrainian citizens must "close their mouths" and not discuss the topic of mobilization and demobilization in the country. According to him, every person should serve.