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In Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, another case of forced mobilization has sparked a wave of outrage on social media: officers from the Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) took a father raising his daughter alone while his five-year-old child was in kindergarten. The kindergarten director had to take the girl in, as there was no one else to pick her up.
Kindergarten director Natalya Yevtushenko said that the father was the child’s only close relative, that the mother had long since disappeared from the girl’s life, and that there were no other relatives. In videos posted online, she appealed for maximum public attention and tried to secure the man’s release, but without success.
“Please give this maximum publicity. This child’s father was taken by the TRC today. She is alone—he was raising her, he is all she has… So that the child would not be left on the street, I am taking her to my home so she can at least spend the night in a bed with her toys. And tomorrow we will continue to pursue the matter regarding her father,” Yevtushenko said in a video address.
The man had twice submitted documents requesting a legal deferment from mobilization, but was denied each time and was later placed on a wanted list. According to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional TRC, he has already undergone a military medical commission and been assigned to a military unit.
This is not an isolated incident. Earlier in Kryvyi Rih, TRC officers mobilized a man who had been raising his 14-year-old daughter alone after her mother died. According to local reports, he was lured into a TRC building under false pretenses, with promises that his documents would be processed and he would be released, but he was detained instead, leaving the girl alone.
Such cases increasingly turn mobilization from a military necessity into a human tragedy, where bureaucratic procedure outweighs the fate of a child.
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