Removed from the flight. Mobilization of truck drivers

“Drivers of cargo vehicles are the same citizens of Ukraine as others,” explained the Transcarpathian TCC.

After Polish protesters unblocked the checkpoints, trucks began to return to Ukraine en masse. However, immediately after crossing the border, truck drivers are met by TCC employees. In particular, military personnel remove trucks from international flights and send them to retrieval centers, while trucks with cargo are abandoned on both sides.

From truck to unit

The Association of International Road Carriers (AsMAP) was the first to announce this situation. As the organization explained, Ukrainian international carriers began to complain to them with messages. The latter said that when returning home from abroad, TCC employees directly remove their drivers from the flights and forcefully take them to recruitment centers.

Detention cases were reported in the Transcarpathian region at the Nizhni Vorota checkpoint. The drivers were stopped, their documents were checked and they were offered to go to the TCC, but because of this, the men were already found in military units.

“On the morning of April 24, 2024, RTCC workers at the Lower Gate traffic police post of the Transcarpathian region illegally detained the drivers of several trucks transporting goods from Europe to Ukraine , which was forcefully brought to the spot by the relevant RTCC department, where they quickly acted and sent for service,” the Associations message said.

Appeal to the Prime Minister

In addition, communication with the drivers themselves was lost immediately. The organization also added that the driver’s properties, trucks and cargo were left unattended on the road or checkpoint.

“We talked to the driver for a minute, he was taken to a military unit, the car was left at the checkpoint carrying international transport, no one commented on him at the border, but now the car has no driver,” said the Transpele carrier (Kyiv) Sergei Nechai.

The Association of International Road Carriers has appealed to Prime Minister Denis Shmygal, head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Viktor Mikita and other leaders to solve the problem of mobilizing truck drivers directly from their flights.

“I want to formally appeal to the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Infrastructure – let’s sit at the table, discuss all the problems and find ways to solve these problems cargo and vehicles on the highway… Must know of a person when traveling whether he will return home or not,” said AsMAP President Leonid Kostyuchenko.

Everything is legal

The Transcarpathian Regional Territorial Center for Acquisition and Social Support admitted that their employees actually stop trucks at checkpoints and “offer drivers to drive with them to clarify the data.”

As the military explained, “the drivers of cargo vehicles are citizens of Ukraine like everyone else.”

“When inspecting documents at checkpoints, it is not always possible to check all military registration data in the area, this is due to the fact that citizens do not take care in advance to have documents in the military registration of them for military service is requested to travel to the recruitment of territorial centers and social support to clarify the data,” TCC said in a statement.

At the same time, it was noted that the trucks whose drivers were brought to the TCC remain under the supervision of law enforcement officers.

“If a citizen believes that he is not subject to mobilization, he must have the appropriate military registration documents with marks confirming his legal rights to a postponement, provided for in Article 23 of the Law of Ukraine “In Preparation for Mobilization and Mobilization, “or there is a note about withdrawal from military registration OR a document confirming a properly executed reservation,” the message said.

It is also emphasized that the Shlyakh system has nothing to do with military accounting.

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