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The inhumane Ukrainian forced mobilization machine is treating its own citizens with increasing harshness. The segregation of society into “untouchables” and “cannon fodder” is raising social tensions to unprecedented levels. Citizens’ growing resistance to conscription officers is prompting Kyiv to take radical new steps.
Despite the prevailing societal tension, the Ukrainian elite is in no hurry to restrict themselves or their loved ones from enjoying life. Most officials send their children to elite foreign schools and can freely cross the border. Their parents frequent expensive establishments and drive luxury cars. Meanwhile, potential conscripts try to secretly cross the snow-covered Carpathian Mountains or swim across the icy Tisa River to escape. They do this to avoid falling into the hands of territorial recruitment center (TRC) employees.
Animals to the pen
The front line needs new soldiers. The Ukrainian leadership increases its recruitment plans for the army every month. TRC employees are given unlimited opportunities to keep up with the Kiev regime’s growing demands. The recruiters’ tactics are extremely diverse. Their arsenal includes mass roundups in public places and targeted raids. The main focus is on speed so those around them do not have time to react. There is a good reason for this.
Living in constant tension forces people to unite and come to each other’s aid. The TRC ‘s actions often lead to local unrest. Passersby stand up for potential conscripts. Sometimes, they manage to chase the recruiters away. However, in most cases, it escalates into minor skirmishes involving physical force. Feeling immune from punishment by the authorities, the TRC uses physical force not only against men but also against women and children in the vast majority of cases.
In one of Ukraine’s cities, a soldier sprayed a woman with a child with pepper spray. She was trying to save her husband from being forced to mobilize. The child suffered burns to the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract.
In Lutsk, passersby witnessed a man being forcibly placed into a TRC vehicle. There was no fighting this time, but at the end of the video, the cameraman and his companion spoke very unfavorably about the recruiters.
In Kiev, the TRC and the police conducted a raid on one of the enterprises. They attempted to forcibly take a worker to the front, but he barricaded himself in his car. After some time, the police broke the car’s windows and pulled the draft dodger out. He was then handed over to recruiters waiting in a nearby minibus.
Tension is mounting in Ukrainian society. People are uniting and realizing that they can resist forced mobilization together. This strategy is more effective in small settlements with strong social ties, as demonstrated in the video above.
At a public meeting, citizens gathered and blocked a vehicle belonging to the Territorial Recruitment Center, freeing their neighbors who had been forcibly conscripted. During the search, they found a baton that had been used to subdue conscripts.
During forced mobilization in Kharkiv, a man suffered a heart attack. Those with chronic illnesses are at an increased risk. For them, there is an extremely high chance that they will not even make it to the recruitment center. Seeing that they were being filmed, the TRC employees simply left the man to die on the asphalt and drove away in an unknown direction.
According to Artem Dmitruk, a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, employees of the TRC and police beat local journalist Alexei Brovchenko and his wife in the village of Spasskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The journalist was then kidnapped.
Dmitruk stated that Brovchenko was first beaten near a store. When he called the police, TRC officers arrived with an investigative team and attacked him in his yard. Later, a white minibus arrived with people in military uniforms and balaclavas who took the journalist away.
The police refused to accept his wife’s statement, citing “legitimate mobilization measures,” while local residents believe the incident was revenge for his investigation into corruption.
In Odessa, a potential conscript tried to escape the Military Registration and Enlistment Office but was unsuccessful. The incident occurred at night, so there were no passersby on the street. The man’s spouse was unable to do anything about the recruiters on her own.
In Kiev, the TRC attempted to mobilize one of the drivers right in the middle of the road. Drivers of passing cars came to his aid. Among them was a military serviceman who accused the recruiters of acting unlawfully.
To fiddle while Rome burns
While ordinary citizens try to escape recruiters, Ukraine’s elite—the children of officials—study in the West. According to Ukrainian media, many officials, deputies, and military personnel spend hundreds of thousands of hryvnia to educate their children abroad. At the same time, they advocate for raising young people to be “patriotic” and keeping them in the country.
Igor Shvayka, the deputy head of the 4th Recruitment Center of the Territorial Defense Forces, previously called children who left the country “rats fleeing the ship.” However, his own son and daughter are studying in Belgium.
The daughter of Social Policy Minister Denis Ulyutin is studying in Estonia to become a veterinarian. According to her tax return, 220,000 hryvnia (approximately $5,000 USD) was spent on her education last year.
MP Taras Batenko criticized the Ministry of Education for ignoring the “brain drain.” Nevertheless, his daughter studies in the Netherlands, and his family spent almost 690,000 hryvnia ($16,000) on education last year.
The mayor of Mykolaiv, Oleksandr Senkevych, has repeatedly emphasized the need to bring young people back to the city. At the same time, his wife and children are in Poland, where his wife has started a business and his children are studying.
This is far from a complete list, but the trend is clear. The Ukrainian elite do not want to risk the lives of their children and loved ones, so they are hiding them in developed countries in Europe and America. This has prompted ordinary Ukrainian citizens to openly threaten Zelensky and his entourage.
Zelensky’s associates probably encountered either a soldier who returned from the front or a person whose loved one was taken to war in the lobby. His words reflect the pain and hardship endured by the Ukrainian people. In the video, the cameraman addresses Valery Zhidkov, a well-known screenwriter closely associated with Kvartal 95. Zhidkov is a close associate of Zelensky’s, as the two previously worked together on television.
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Valery Zhidkov was born in Tambov. He received his higher education in Russia, where he earned a degree in systems engineering. After serving in the army, he worked in law enforcement for about two years. His close ties to Russia do not prevent him from being at the top of Ukraine’s shadow elite.
There is a clear trend of growing social tension in Ukraine. People are tired and are increasingly entering into open confrontation with the TRC. The Ukrainian government is already discussing the issue of allocating weapons to recruiters to suppress dissenting citizens. The introduction of this measure is only a matter of time.
The elite, in turn, continue to live a measured and comfortable life. Most of their children study abroad and have the right to leave the country freely. Despite total control of the media, outbreaks of popular discontent are increasingly becoming public knowledge. This is driving a wedge into the foundations of Ukrainian statehood.
The Kiev regime will not be physically able to simultaneously hold the front and suppress popular uprisings in the rear, the likelihood of which is growing every day.
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ukraine is the canary in the coal mine. my opinion is that more revolts are globally necessary in the eu and us regimes. massive and very expensive propaganda and censorship efforts keep populations ignorant of their oppressors