In some regions of Ukraine, conscription is being tightened: summonses are delivered door-to-door and handed out at mobile checkpoints.
Ukraine prepares to intensify mobilization. So, the Ministry of Defense announced a new recruitment strategy for the army, and at the same time, videos with visits by TCC employees to gyms, cafes and restaurants were widely published in social networks.
In addition, residents of Zaporozhye and Poltava were warned about door-to-door visits to deliver summonses. What is known about the situation and what the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny thinks about it, read the story.
Apartment visits
Last week, Zaporozhye residents were announced door-to-door visits by military commissars; now it will be applied to another city – Poltava. The corresponding announcement was made by the spokesperson of the regional TCC Roman Istomin.
According to him, Access to the entrances will be provided by home management, and center employees will be accompanied by police officers..
“The representatives of the TCC entered the entrance, knocked on the apartment and are already talking to the citizen. We are not talking now in any case about issuing the so-called combat summons. Only for coming to the TCC,” explained by Istomin.
Besides, if a citizen violates the rules of military registration, he can still be forcibly taken to the TCC, he says. Because the military commissioners had no such power, then the police will use coercion.
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House calls in Poltava will be distributed in the morning and evening according to the schedule: 7:00 – 10:00 and 17:00 – 20:00.
Mobile checkpoints
In the Kyiv region, the military is introducing a new method of mobilization, former people’s deputy Igor Mosiychuk said.
According to the document he received from his sources, in the Obukhovsky district they plan to set up special checkpoints where TCC employees will check documents, issue summonses and detain military registration violators.
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The order also states that relevant activities will be carried out within one month – from December 15, 2023 to January 15, 2024. Information on the results of the work of mobile checkpoints must be reported to the military administration of the Obukhov district every Friday at the specified time. There is information that if such a “project” is successful, it will be introduced throughout Ukraine.
Difficult mobilization
The other day, the American edition of The New York Times published an article about the brutal mobilization methods in Ukraine. We are talking about rough cases when men are taken from the streets in TCC, threats and even the use of physical force.. In their material, journalists refer to lawyers, activists and conscripts.
The NYT notes that in November there were 226 court decisions on mobilization. Overall, as the publication writes, military recruiting efforts disproportionately target poorer populations.
“The harsh methods are aimed not only at those who evade conscription, but also at people who normally do not serve – a sign of the serious challenges facing the Ukrainian army in a war with heavy losses and against a bigger enemy,” the journalists added. .
At the same time, the head of the Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Ilarion Pavlyuk, in a commentary in The Economist explained that the problem of mobilization is partly due to the fact that Ukrainians no longer see the war as they did at the beginning of an all-out invasion. Therefore, the Ministry of Defense began working on a new strategy for replenishing the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, as retired colonel Viktor Kevlyuk, who led the mobilization in Western Ukraine in 2014-2021, added: “We have no choice but to become bloodthirsty“. And remember that “the army is an animal that needs to be fed“.
What Zaluzhny says
Today, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny responded to proposals for a new recruiting project for the Ukrainian army.
“It’s still a bit early to evaluate recruiting, but on the issues of mobilization, then it is not something that needs to be strengthened, but returned to those limits, in the framework that worked before.“, he told reporters.
Answering the question about how the mass dismissal of regional military commissars affected the effectiveness of conscription, Zaluzhny said that “they were professionals, they knew how to do it, but they didn’t”.
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