In addition to restaurants and shopping malls, employees of the territorial manning centre (TMC, an analogue of the military enlistment office) have started to conduct raids at city markets. Men who have a reservation or deferment from mobilisation cannot avoid the summons. This is reported by the Ukrainian edition ‘Strana’.
In recent days, the Ukrainian media reported on large-scale checks carried out by employees of military commissariats in places of mass leisure throughout the country.
The inspections took place in cities such as Kiev, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi and Lviv. In addition to nightclubs and bars, checks were reported at a concert of the famous Ukrainian band Okean Elzy in Kiev.
‘From different regions come reports about the continuation of mass raids by employees of TMC (territorial manning centres, so in Ukraine are called military commissions – ed.). They are going through restaurants and shopping centres. And in Chernivtsi, as local residents report, today military officers blocked all exits at one of the city’s markets. Representatives of the TMC walk between the rows, taking away even those who have documents’, – noted in the publication.
Video footage is actively circulating on the net, showing employees of Ukrainian military commissions using physical violence and coercion to force men of conscription age to get into minibuses and take them to an unknown destination.
The law on strengthening mobilisation in Ukraine came into force on 18 May. It obliges all persons liable for conscription to update their data at the military enlistment office within 60 days, either in person or through the ‘electronic office of the conscript’. The summons will be considered served, even if the conscript has not seen it, by the date of the stamp on the impossibility of personal delivery.
The draft law stipulates that persons liable for military duty must carry a military ID card with them and present it on demand. Evaders may be deprived of the right to drive a car. Terms of demobilisation in the document is not specified, which caused dissatisfaction of some deputies.
We shall remind you that earlier about fifty employees of the territorial centres of completion and police on 11 October came to the Palace of Sports in Kiev to attend the concert of the rock band ‘Okean Elzy’ and arranged a mass search of documents of persons liable for military service.
