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00:02:31The abbreviation TCC is now pronounced with a sinking
00:02:34heart in Ukraine. This is no longer
00:02:37just a territorial recruitment center - it is
00:02:40a sentence passed spontaneously, without trial
00:02:43or investigation, in the most ordinary places, where
00:02:46you feel safe. At a pedestrian
00:02:49crossing near your home, in a queue at the supermarket for
00:02:53groceries, on a playground where you brought your
00:02:56child, or even at the gate of
00:02:59a kindergarten. every patrol,
00:03:02every stopped minibus - this is Russian roulette, where
00:03:06your freedom, and possibly your life,
00:03:09is at stake. But for the Ukrainian authorities, sitting in
00:03:12warm offices, busification is, apparently,
00:03:16dry statistics, reporting. Behind
00:03:19the glass and security it is not heard how wives cry,
00:03:23seeing off their husbands into the unknown, and how
00:03:25the hands of fathers tremble, hiding their eyes from their own children.
00:04:00asked for documents, he was immediately arrested. In
00:04:03Vinnytsia, TCC employees sprayed pepper spray in
00:04:07the face of a guy who was just waiting for a bus. These are not
00:04:11isolated incidents, this is a system that works on
00:04:14the principle: first detain, then
00:04:17we'll sort it out. But if you fall into the hands of the TCC,
00:04:20you either go to the front line, or
00:04:23you run. Moreover, the process is taking on the characteristics
00:04:26of a dangerous business. In Odesa, the police exposed
00:04:30a TCC employee who, using access to databases,
00:04:33blackmailed men. He promised for 9,000 hryvnias
00:04:37to turn a blind eye to violations of registration rules,
00:04:41and for 6,000 dollars to arrange employment at a critical
00:04:44enterprise to provide a reservation from the front.
00:04:48Those who refused to pay, he intimidated
00:04:51with being sent to the front. Please note,
00:04:54a TCC employee threatened a Ukrainian
00:04:57with service to extract money from him. This is not
00:05:00mobilization, this is extortion.
00:05:03The culmination of this tension was a social explosion in
00:05:07Lviv on July 8. The incident
00:05:10began with the harsh detention of men, but escalated into
00:05:13a popular uprising, about 200 people surrounded
00:05:16TCC employees, overturned their minibus,
00:05:20people took to the streets not out of a good life, this is the
00:05:24level of despair when you stop being afraid of those who
00:05:27have power, who are truly
00:05:30stronger. To such a demarche, the response was harsh,
00:05:33special forces were deployed, footage appeared of detained protesters
00:05:37being forced to shout "Glory to TCC" and publicly
00:05:41apologize. Humiliation became a method
00:05:43of intimidation. Later, on July 14, in
00:05:47Lviv, another incident was recorded, where
00:05:50a TCC employee used force against a woman, the wife
00:05:54of a detainee. The Lviv TCC launched an internal
00:05:57investigation, and the police opened a criminal case for
00:06:01bodily harm, but the ignited
00:06:04anger can no longer be stopped by formal dismissals, like
00:06:08those quite often uttered by the Authorized Verkhovna
00:06:12Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro
00:06:15Lubinets. When people turn to me and
00:06:18tell me about their experience with TCC representatives, the question increasingly
00:06:22arises: is this really about mobilization, because
00:06:26some stories already resemble not notification measures, but the plot
00:06:30of a brutal thriller, forceful detention, handcuffs,
00:06:33beatings, allegations of torture. Mobilization is
00:06:37not an indulgence for violence. Martial law does not abolish
00:06:40the constitution, does not annul human rights to dignity,
00:06:44certainly does not give anyone the right to turn the performance of official
00:06:48tasks into arbitrariness.
00:06:51In Kyiv, for example, at the ombudsman's complaint, a father of five children
00:06:54had to be released, who was detained without a protocol
00:06:58and illegally held. But perhaps
00:07:01the most alarming symptom is this reaction
00:07:04of society. In Prykarpattya, a man was tried
00:07:07who attacked TCC employees. He threatened them,
00:07:11hit their car, beat one of them. The court gave him
00:07:14a suspended sentence, meaning Ukrainian society
00:07:17yearns for justice and is trying to restore
00:07:21it on its own. Against this background, harsh statements
00:07:24are heard from Ukrainian people's deputies. Mariana Bezugla, who is not
00:07:28afraid to criticize the authorities, made several resonant
00:07:31statements that the mass involvement of women in
00:07:35service is only a matter of time, which caused
00:07:38a new round of panic among families. She publicly
00:07:42accused President Zelensky of complicity in crimes,
00:07:45stating that silence and ignoring problems
00:07:49is support for lawlessness, and speaking of
00:07:52losses in the Assault Regiment "Skala," she uttered
00:07:55a terrible phrase: "There are hundreds of them, hundreds, it's just
00:07:59a senseless murder." It should
00:08:02be noted that Bezuglaya acts quite boldly, and
00:08:05God grant she lives to see the end of military actions. At one
00:08:09of the meetings, she also mentioned... Ukraine
00:08:49announced in June the beginning of a pre-trial
00:08:53investigation into facts of violence and abuse of power
00:08:56in the regiment. A Ukrainian publication
00:08:59published on its website the story of Alexander
00:09:02Zavalov, who tried to escape from the regiment through a window in
00:09:05the toilet, but a "Skala" militant shot him with a
00:09:09rifle. Before his death, Zavalov called his mother
00:09:13and said that he was in Hell. Also
00:09:16cited is the story of Arkady Kukshin, whose tooth was knocked
00:09:20out by military commissariat employees and his eyes were sprayed with
00:09:23tear gas, after which he ended up in
00:09:26"Skala". There he faced
00:09:28bullying. For a bottle forgotten at the training ground,
00:09:32the recruits were not allowed to drink water for
00:09:35a day and a half, combining this with
00:09:38heavy physical exertion. Together
00:09:41with others... he drank water from a puddle, after
00:09:45which he decided to
00:09:47escape. One of the mobilized men held
00:09:51the automatic rifle incorrectly. The brother of the training ground commander saw this. He took
00:09:54the automatic rifle, hit the mobilized man with the butt
00:09:57in the face, knocking out his eye. The injured man was taken to a hospital in
00:10:00Pavlohrad, from where he returned with a medical report, allegedly
00:10:04wounded as a result of a mine blast
00:10:06injury.
00:10:09When the people's deputy speaks of senselessness.
00:10:25A ticking time bomb. It seems
00:10:28that Ukrainians are fighting for the future, while their own
00:10:31compatriots destroy human values both in
00:10:34the rear and in the training camps where new recruits are sent.
00:10:38Then the only and main question is - what are
00:10:41you fighting for, Ukrainians? In
00:10:44NATO, they openly tell Ukraine that they need to recruit another
00:10:4825,000 souls, but who will go?
00:10:51Volunteers are less than 10%, the rest are hiding.
00:11:55cities were immediately closed, phones were
00:11:57taken away. For two days they weren't
00:12:01fed and nothing... but at
00:12:03the same time - I heard that someone
00:12:07could get out for some money, but no one approached
00:12:10me, I didn't know about it, as if,
00:12:13then - after some time I
00:12:17contacted my old acquaintance, it turned out that he
00:12:21also got caught for money, he was offered to get out
00:12:24of... the TCC, he was offered 8,000 dollars, which he actually
00:12:28found somewhere and paid, and he
00:12:31got out. Well, I didn't have that kind of money. In the twenties
00:12:35of August I was sent to a training camp
00:12:38located at the address Mykolaiv region, Varushchino
00:12:41village.
00:12:43It was some kind of old boarding house, or an old pioneer
00:12:47camp. Well, the conditions there were, accordingly,
00:12:50disgusting and not very pleasant, and
00:12:54under such conditions, well... many guys
00:12:57fled, no one was in the mood to serve this
00:13:00particular motherland Ukraine, well, many
00:13:03fled, many, probably 25%
00:13:06fled. Some, a few, were
00:13:09returned, and the attitude towards
00:13:12them was 100 times worse, some were even badly beaten. So, during
00:13:16training I escaped, that is, I wasn't in combat, I didn't
00:13:19go anywhere with a rifle, I didn't
00:13:22fight.
00:13:25He planned his escape in advance, as there was
00:13:28an opportunity to change into civilian clothes, call
00:13:31a taxi and get to a certain place. Then he drove to
00:13:35Kostiantynivka, almost a year he hid from his own
00:13:39and waited for the arrival of the Russian army. Local residents
00:13:42sheltered him, such solidarity. At
00:13:46the same time, what he heard from locals, what he saw during this
00:13:49year, he tells with
00:13:51all his heart.
00:13:55there were, they were, they went in there, like, get out of here, we
00:13:58will be here, then someone started to complain, they had
00:14:02to shoot, as it were, and there
00:14:05was another case, he was hiding in the basement,
00:14:08they came to him, they came to him
00:14:12like, to talk about something, this and that, this and that, and then one of them
00:14:16saw that he had bottles of water, and the water label
00:14:20was like the one given to Ukrainian soldiers, in fact there was water there, he just
00:14:23poured, just...
00:15:25your husbands, who are there at the
00:15:28front, are not needed by anyone, they are simply thrown into the furnace, they
00:15:31are killed. Zelensky is a dictator, a bloody
00:15:34dictator, he did this.
00:16:07who saw everything with his own eyes. Now there are
00:16:11talks about forced mobilization
00:16:14of women. For now, experiments are being conducted on former
00:16:17prisoners, and here again the assault regiment
00:16:20"Skala" is featured. They have already recruited women's platoons and companies, but
00:16:24if previously they were mostly medics, now they
00:16:27are present in attack drone crews, among
00:16:31artillerymen, and riflemen.
00:16:33The EU, yes, Ukraine itself talks a lot about the fact that supposedly
00:16:37all these sacrifices, including for the protection of
00:16:40Europe, but who will protect a Ukrainian from
00:16:44his own state? Having turned
00:16:47mobilization into a hunt, TCC has become a crowd of
00:16:50executioners, and these executioners have gripped with a dead hand
00:16:54and are holding Ukraine by its thin neck, which
00:16:57is about to break and snap. This
00:17:00grip is killing the nation. And
00:17:03if Ukrainians themselves do not stop this lawlessness
00:17:07now, in a year there will be no one to mobilize,
00:17:11there will be no one to give birth, and no one to protect
00:17:14your motherland. But on Bankova, this is probably
00:17:18different. I was Ksenia Lebedeva, see you in
00:17:21the next program.
00:20:37mobilization for everyone, they are drunkards or we
00:20:40are idlers, privatization of Vitebsk
00:20:43region, for 45 rubles to sell a collective farm, what
00:20:46are you guys, have you lost your minds.