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[00:02:31] The abbreviation TCC is now pronounced with a sinking
[00:02:34] heart in Ukraine. This is no longer
[00:02:37] just a territorial recruitment center - it is
[00:02:40] a sentence passed spontaneously, without trial
[00:02:43] or investigation, in the most ordinary places, where
[00:02:46] you feel safe. At a pedestrian
[00:02:49] crossing near your home, in a queue at the supermarket for
[00:02:53] groceries, on a playground where you brought your
[00:02:56] child, or even at the gate of
[00:02:59] a kindergarten. every patrol,
[00:03:02] every stopped minibus - this is Russian roulette, where
[00:03:06] your freedom, and possibly your life,
[00:03:09] is at stake. But for the Ukrainian authorities, sitting in
[00:03:12] warm offices, busification is, apparently,
[00:03:16] dry statistics, reporting. Behind
[00:03:19] the glass and security it is not heard how wives cry,
[00:03:23] seeing off their husbands into the unknown, and how
[00:03:25] the hands of fathers tremble, hiding their eyes from their own children.
[00:04:00] asked for documents, he was immediately arrested. In
[00:04:03] Vinnytsia, TCC employees sprayed pepper spray in
[00:04:07] the face of a guy who was just waiting for a bus. These are not
[00:04:11] isolated incidents, this is a system that works on
[00:04:14] the principle: first detain, then
[00:04:17] we'll sort it out. But if you fall into the hands of the TCC,
[00:04:20] you either go to the front line, or
[00:04:23] you run. Moreover, the process is taking on the characteristics
[00:04:26] of a dangerous business. In Odesa, the police exposed
[00:04:30] a TCC employee who, using access to databases,
[00:04:33] blackmailed men. He promised for 9,000 hryvnias
[00:04:37] to turn a blind eye to violations of registration rules,
[00:04:41] and for 6,000 dollars to arrange employment at a critical
[00:04:44] enterprise to provide a reservation from the front.
[00:04:48] Those who refused to pay, he intimidated
[00:04:51] with being sent to the front. Please note,
[00:04:54] a TCC employee threatened a Ukrainian
[00:04:57] with service to extract money from him. This is not
[00:05:00] mobilization, this is extortion.
[00:05:03] The culmination of this tension was a social explosion in
[00:05:07] Lviv on July 8. The incident
[00:05:10] began with the harsh detention of men, but escalated into
[00:05:13] a popular uprising, about 200 people surrounded
[00:05:16] TCC employees, overturned their minibus,
[00:05:20] people took to the streets not out of a good life, this is the
[00:05:24] level of despair when you stop being afraid of those who
[00:05:27] have power, who are truly
[00:05:30] stronger. To such a demarche, the response was harsh,
[00:05:33] special forces were deployed, footage appeared of detained protesters
[00:05:37] being forced to shout "Glory to TCC" and publicly
[00:05:41] apologize. Humiliation became a method
[00:05:43] of intimidation. Later, on July 14, in
[00:05:47] Lviv, another incident was recorded, where
[00:05:50] a TCC employee used force against a woman, the wife
[00:05:54] of a detainee. The Lviv TCC launched an internal
[00:05:57] investigation, and the police opened a criminal case for
[00:06:01] bodily harm, but the ignited
[00:06:04] anger can no longer be stopped by formal dismissals, like
[00:06:08] those quite often uttered by the Authorized Verkhovna
[00:06:12] Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro
[00:06:15] Lubinets. When people turn to me and
[00:06:18] tell me about their experience with TCC representatives, the question increasingly
[00:06:22] arises: is this really about mobilization, because
[00:06:26] some stories already resemble not notification measures, but the plot
[00:06:30] of a brutal thriller, forceful detention, handcuffs,
[00:06:33] beatings, allegations of torture. Mobilization is
[00:06:37] not an indulgence for violence. Martial law does not abolish
[00:06:40] the constitution, does not annul human rights to dignity,
[00:06:44] certainly does not give anyone the right to turn the performance of official
[00:06:48] tasks into arbitrariness.
[00:06:51] In Kyiv, for example, at the ombudsman's complaint, a father of five children
[00:06:54] had to be released, who was detained without a protocol
[00:06:58] and illegally held. But perhaps
[00:07:01] the most alarming symptom is this reaction
[00:07:04] of society. In Prykarpattya, a man was tried
[00:07:07] who attacked TCC employees. He threatened them,
[00:07:11] hit their car, beat one of them. The court gave him
[00:07:14] a suspended sentence, meaning Ukrainian society
[00:07:17] yearns for justice and is trying to restore
[00:07:21] it on its own. Against this background, harsh statements
[00:07:24] are heard from Ukrainian people's deputies. Mariana Bezugla, who is not
[00:07:28] afraid to criticize the authorities, made several resonant
[00:07:31] statements that the mass involvement of women in
[00:07:35] service is only a matter of time, which caused
[00:07:38] a new round of panic among families. She publicly
[00:07:42] accused President Zelensky of complicity in crimes,
[00:07:45] stating that silence and ignoring problems
[00:07:49] is support for lawlessness, and speaking of
[00:07:52] losses in the Assault Regiment "Skala," she uttered
[00:07:55] a terrible phrase: "There are hundreds of them, hundreds, it's just
[00:07:59] a senseless murder." It should
[00:08:02] be noted that Bezuglaya acts quite boldly, and
[00:08:05] God grant she lives to see the end of military actions. At one
[00:08:09] of the meetings, she also mentioned... Ukraine
[00:08:49] announced in June the beginning of a pre-trial
[00:08:53] investigation into facts of violence and abuse of power
[00:08:56] in the regiment. A Ukrainian publication
[00:08:59] published on its website the story of Alexander
[00:09:02] Zavalov, who tried to escape from the regiment through a window in
[00:09:05] the toilet, but a "Skala" militant shot him with a
[00:09:09] rifle. Before his death, Zavalov called his mother
[00:09:13] and said that he was in Hell. Also
[00:09:16] cited is the story of Arkady Kukshin, whose tooth was knocked
[00:09:20] out by military commissariat employees and his eyes were sprayed with
[00:09:23] tear gas, after which he ended up in
[00:09:26] "Skala". There he faced
[00:09:28] bullying. For a bottle forgotten at the training ground,
[00:09:32] the recruits were not allowed to drink water for
[00:09:35] a day and a half, combining this with
[00:09:38] heavy physical exertion. Together
[00:09:41] with others... he drank water from a puddle, after
[00:09:45] which he decided to
[00:09:47] escape. One of the mobilized men held
[00:09:51] the automatic rifle incorrectly. The brother of the training ground commander saw this. He took
[00:09:54] the automatic rifle, hit the mobilized man with the butt
[00:09:57] in the face, knocking out his eye. The injured man was taken to a hospital in
[00:10:00] Pavlohrad, from where he returned with a medical report, allegedly
[00:10:04] wounded as a result of a mine blast
[00:10:06] injury.
[00:10:09] When the people's deputy speaks of senselessness.
[00:10:25] A ticking time bomb. It seems
[00:10:28] that Ukrainians are fighting for the future, while their own
[00:10:31] compatriots destroy human values both in
[00:10:34] the rear and in the training camps where new recruits are sent.
[00:10:38] Then the only and main question is - what are
[00:10:41] you fighting for, Ukrainians? In
[00:10:44] NATO, they openly tell Ukraine that they need to recruit another
[00:10:48] 25,000 souls, but who will go?
[00:10:51] Volunteers are less than 10%, the rest are hiding.
[00:11:55] cities were immediately closed, phones were
[00:11:57] taken away. For two days they weren't
[00:12:01] fed and nothing... but at
[00:12:03] the same time - I heard that someone
[00:12:07] could get out for some money, but no one approached
[00:12:10] me, I didn't know about it, as if,
[00:12:13] then - after some time I
[00:12:17] contacted my old acquaintance, it turned out that he
[00:12:21] also got caught for money, he was offered to get out
[00:12:24] of... the TCC, he was offered 8,000 dollars, which he actually
[00:12:28] found somewhere and paid, and he
[00:12:31] got out. Well, I didn't have that kind of money. In the twenties
[00:12:35] of August I was sent to a training camp
[00:12:38] located at the address Mykolaiv region, Varushchino
[00:12:41] village.
[00:12:43] It was some kind of old boarding house, or an old pioneer
[00:12:47] camp. Well, the conditions there were, accordingly,
[00:12:50] disgusting and not very pleasant, and
[00:12:54] under such conditions, well... many guys
[00:12:57] fled, no one was in the mood to serve this
[00:13:00] particular motherland Ukraine, well, many
[00:13:03] fled, many, probably 25%
[00:13:06] fled. Some, a few, were
[00:13:09] returned, and the attitude towards
[00:13:12] them was 100 times worse, some were even badly beaten. So, during
[00:13:16] training I escaped, that is, I wasn't in combat, I didn't
[00:13:19] go anywhere with a rifle, I didn't
[00:13:22] fight.
[00:13:25] He planned his escape in advance, as there was
[00:13:28] an opportunity to change into civilian clothes, call
[00:13:31] a taxi and get to a certain place. Then he drove to
[00:13:35] Kostiantynivka, almost a year he hid from his own
[00:13:39] and waited for the arrival of the Russian army. Local residents
[00:13:42] sheltered him, such solidarity. At
[00:13:46] the same time, what he heard from locals, what he saw during this
[00:13:49] year, he tells with
[00:13:51] all his heart.
[00:13:55] there were, they were, they went in there, like, get out of here, we
[00:13:58] will be here, then someone started to complain, they had
[00:14:02] to shoot, as it were, and there
[00:14:05] was another case, he was hiding in the basement,
[00:14:08] they came to him, they came to him
[00:14:12] like, to talk about something, this and that, this and that, and then one of them
[00:14:16] saw that he had bottles of water, and the water label
[00:14:20] was like the one given to Ukrainian soldiers, in fact there was water there, he just
[00:14:23] poured, just...
[00:15:25] your husbands, who are there at the
[00:15:28] front, are not needed by anyone, they are simply thrown into the furnace, they
[00:15:31] are killed. Zelensky is a dictator, a bloody
[00:15:34] dictator, he did this.
[00:16:07] who saw everything with his own eyes. Now there are
[00:16:11] talks about forced mobilization
[00:16:14] of women. For now, experiments are being conducted on former
[00:16:17] prisoners, and here again the assault regiment
[00:16:20] "Skala" is featured. They have already recruited women's platoons and companies, but
[00:16:24] if previously they were mostly medics, now they
[00:16:27] are present in attack drone crews, among
[00:16:31] artillerymen, and riflemen.
[00:16:33] The EU, yes, Ukraine itself talks a lot about the fact that supposedly
[00:16:37] all these sacrifices, including for the protection of
[00:16:40] Europe, but who will protect a Ukrainian from
[00:16:44] his own state? Having turned
[00:16:47] mobilization into a hunt, TCC has become a crowd of
[00:16:50] executioners, and these executioners have gripped with a dead hand
[00:16:54] and are holding Ukraine by its thin neck, which
[00:16:57] is about to break and snap. This
[00:17:00] grip is killing the nation. And
[00:17:03] if Ukrainians themselves do not stop this lawlessness
[00:17:07] now, in a year there will be no one to mobilize,
[00:17:11] there will be no one to give birth, and no one to protect
[00:17:14] your motherland. But on Bankova, this is probably
[00:17:18] different. I was Ksenia Lebedeva, see you in
[00:17:21] the next program.
[00:20:37] mobilization for everyone, they are drunkards or we
[00:20:40] are idlers, privatization of Vitebsk
[00:20:43] region, for 45 rubles to sell a collective farm, what
[00:20:46] are you guys, have you lost your minds.