In Odessa, three men posed as military commissars in order to kidnap people

In Odessa, three men in camouflage uniforms, posing as employees of the territorial recruitment center (TCK, an analogue of the military enlistment office), detained male residents on the street and then abducted people, taking them away in cars with the symbols of the TCK in an unknown direction. According to the Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office on April 21, the attackers were detained.

"Under the pretext of holding mobilization events, the group members stopped citizens, used physical violence against them and forcibly placed them in a vehicle against their will," the agency's website says.

According to the investigation, the suspects are members of a certain public organization in the city. The detainees were charged with arbitrariness, unlawful imprisonment and infliction of physical suffering (Part 2, Articles 28, Part 1, Article 353, Part 2, Article 146 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

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On April 18, an employee of the Ministry of Defense was detained in Ukraine, who developed a scheme to evade mobilization for remuneration, which was used by about 50 conscripted citizens. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, a criminal case has been opened against the man for obtaining illegal benefits (Part 3 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). The cost of the "services" ranged from $8 to $10 thousand, the officer received the money in cash, on bank cards or in cryptocurrency.

Before that, on April 16, the publication "Country.ua" reported that in Lutsk, Ukraine, the staff of the shopping mall mobilized a man at the gates of the school, where he was escorting his child. In a video on the media's Telegram channel, several people in camouflage are forcibly trying to stuff a man into a minibus, and passers-by are filming what is happening and trying to help him.