A-Infos (en) Russia, AIT: Ukraine: Resistance against mobilization (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Against the background of the scandalous discussion and adoption by the 
Ukrainian parliament of the law, which has already been dubbed "total 
mobilization" on social networks, the protest of the population against 
the mobilization terror of the authorities is intensifying. Women play 
the most active role in resistance. ---- Even before the law was passed 
on February 7, the conscription spree was already in full swing, 
reminiscent of the methods used in the 17th and 18th centuries to 
recruit recruits for the armies of European monarchs. At the end of 
December, Ukrainian border guards further tightened control over exit 
from the country. They began to demand from men leaving for documents 
with a record of deferment from the TCC (that's what military 
registration and enlistment offices are called in Ukraine). Because of 
this, huge queues arose at the border, skirmishes broke out with border 
guards ( 
https://ua-reporter.com/news/situaciya-na-granice-nakalyaetsya-lyudi-zastryali-v-ocheredyah-video).

Continuous raids were reported from various regions and cities of the 
country. Thus, in Odessa at the beginning of January, employees of the 
military registration and enlistment offices (in Ukraine they are called 
TCK) walked along trolleybuses, trams and minibuses and forced men aged 
27 to 60 to go out to check documents ( 
https://tsn.ua/ru/exclusive/mobilizaciya-po-odesski-tck-snimaet-muzhchin-s-marshrutok-i-upakovyvaet-v-busy-socseti-2490763.html). 
The Odessa publication "Dumskaya" in its Telegram channel described how 
military personnel tried to forcefully remove a man from a transport 
while he asked other passengers to call the police. The video published 
by the newspaper shows a group of armed men in camouflage uniforms 
forcibly tearing a man from his seat on a bus. At this time, one of the 
military men threatened the author of the video that he would also be 
mobilized. It was alleged that such raids (including in shopping 
centers) have been going on for a month ( 
https://podolyaka.ru/v-odesse-uzhe-mesyats-kak-idut-massovye-oblavy/ ).

However, as anarchists from Kharkov commented, "this has been going on 
all over the country for a year now." Comrades from the Kharkov 
"Assembly" published material about the raids in Kharkov and their 
consequences, including the shortage of workers in transport ( 
https://assembly.org.ua/god-nachalsya-novosti-oblav-v-harkove-pod-shum-obsuzhdeniya-zakona-o-mobilizaczii/). 


Information about the lawlessness of military commissariat officers in 
Kharkov is also confirmed by videos that circulate on social networks - 
for example, the one in which you can see how TCC employees forcibly 
dragged a young man into their bus to take him to the military 
registration and enlistment office. The video caused numerous indignant 
comments from users of the Telegram channel ( 
https://t.me/kharkiv_1654/79014 )

In Belaya Tserkov near Kiev, TCC workers grabbed a young man and took 
him away, and then he died in the hospital from beatings ( 
https://news.meta.ua/news/est-informatsiia-chto-v-beloi-tserkvi-paren-skonchalsia-ot-poboev-sotrudnikov-ttsk-deputat-shevchenko-5853807/). 
In the Dnepropetrovsk region, TCC employees were allowed to inspect the 
belongings of citizens 
(https://tsn.ua/ru/exclusive/usilenie-mobilizacii-v-dnepre-sotrudnikam-tck-razreshili-proveryat-dokumenty-i-osmatrivat-veschi-zakonno-li-eto-2484343.html 
).

"There are reports from several regions at once that hospitals refuse to 
hospitalize men of military age without a TCC certificate" (( 
https://t.me/slav_azaroff/1960 ). "The theater of the absurd is gaining 
scale and momentum. In Kiev, taxis do not go to areas where where, 
according to public notices, summonses are handed out. This is how 
peculiar exclusion zones begin to emerge, where, with the tightening of 
mobilization, ambulances can ignore calls and stop delivering food. The 
Ministry of Education announced the liquidation of universities due to a 
reduction in the number of school graduates. The pattern of formation of 
the intelligentsia is broken: school - university - adult life, now 
relevant: elementary school - border - just to stay alive. Governor Kim 
denied draft dodgers the right to movement and leisure, declared them 
house arrest. And in Dnepr, the city council wants to create municipal 
groups to search for those liable for military service at their place of 
residence. Everything fits here , - officials drive people home, as if 
into a trap, from where the warta will break them out, while receiving a 
reprieve for the livestock. But such measures, turning men of military 
age into hunted animals, will only lead to a catastrophic drop in the 
loyalty of the population," comments Odessa activist Vyacheslav Azarov ( 
https://t.me/slav_azaroff/1953 ).

"The UN Office of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Ukraine needs 
humanitarian aid for 14.6 million people by 2024. or ok. 40% of the 
population. In other words, almost half the country simply cannot 
survive at current levels of income and prices. Against this background, 
the government is lifting the moratorium on turning off electricity for 
debts and, in order to replenish the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is making 
it as difficult as possible for the main breadwinners of Ukrainian 
families to find employment, as well as to receive subsidies, which 
cannot be done without a TCC certificate," he notes ( 
https://t.me/slav_azaroff/ 1940 )

Outrage against "conscript terror" is growing. In Zhashkov (Cherkasy 
region) on December 25, unknown persons threw a grenade into the yard of 
a TCC employee, damaging a fence and a gas pipe 
(https://provce.ck.ua/u-zhashkovi-nevidomi-kynuly-hranatu-u-dvir-pratsivnyka-ttsk/ 
). This is not the first (and probably not the last) attack on employees 
of the repressive bodies of the bourgeois state.

"The difference between "one's own power" and life under occupation is 
so erased that the most popular comments on the news about busification 
are ideas of gathering and beating the ludolov," comments the Kharkov 
"Assembly." She also recalls that at the end of the year, the Kharkov 
Telegram channel "Self-Defense from the TsKshnikov" gained about 400 
subscribers, which, however, does not call for violent actions 
(https://assembly.org.ua/god-nachalsya-novosti-oblav-v-harkove-pod-shum-obsuzhdeniya-zakona-o-mobilizaczii/ 
).

Someone is trying to evade the cruel paw of the state in extraordinary 
ways. Some, going out into open spaces, begin to imitate a limp or walk 
with a stick in the hope that the ambush of military commissars will 
ignore them. An advertisement for a silicone "old man mask" is 
circulating on the Internet. Judging by the photo, from a distance it is 
difficult to distinguish her from a real person ( 
https://t.me/slav_azaroff/1927 )

Already at the end of December last year, a video spread on social 
networks about how, in one of the markets, a group of women defended a 
man to whom they were trying to give a draft notice from three employees 
of the TCC (as military registration and enlistment offices are called 
in Ukraine). "Let's get out of here! Why did you come here?! Go and 
fight yourself, you learned this!" - the protesters told the military 
commissars. One of the citizens threatened the TCC employees with 
calling the prosecutor's office. As a result of the argument, one of the 
defenders simply took the man by the elbow and led him away from the 
servicemen. The latter did not even make attempts to detain them ( 
https://hot.noodlemagazine.com/watch/-214698748_456345153 ).

Later, another video from Odessa appeared: women at the market closed 
the stalls, gathered in a crowd and attacked the military commissars, 
cursing them as "bastards" and "bastards" ( 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZKndAhfmvE ).

During a mass raid on buses and trams on January 9, female passengers 
actively scolded military commissars. "They are packing the men in a way 
that is not childish (...) People in military uniforms stopped public 
transport and are taking the men away," commented the author of one of 
the videos. The women tried to drive the soldiers out of the bus. "What 
are you doing? Go here! Call the police! ...banned in general," rushed 
towards the human hunters. The man who filmed what was happening on 
video was detained 
(https://informator.ua/ru/mobilizaciya-v-odesse-predstaviteli-tck-ostanavlivayut-avtobusy-i-tramvai-dlya-proverok 
)/

In the city, on shuttle buses, altercations constantly occur between 
representatives of the TCC and women, who do not allow them to enter the 
bus to check the documents of men. "Get out, children in the minibus, we 
won't give anyone away," they said during one of these incidents. As a 
result, the military registration and enlistment office employee was 
unable to get to the men in the cabin, but he remained at the door to 
check the documents of new passengers ( 
https://vk.com/video-65082015_456253473 ).

Military commissars are called "internal occupiers" and often refuse to 
obey them ( https://vk.com/video-65082015_456253466 ). In another video, 
you can see how a passenger drove military commissars out of a shuttle 
bus. When she began to be indignant at the delay in transport, two men 
in uniform approached her, and one of them sharply asked "where the 
passenger's husband is fighting." "Now I'll tell you where he's 
fighting. Shameless. Get out, I'm late for work, what am I supposed to 
tell you, get out!" - she was indignant. In response, the military man, 
in obscene language, demanded that the woman "shut her mouth" and "sit 
down and pee in your pants." After that, he gave the command to his 
subordinates to get off the bus. The passenger called this behavior a 
"shame"; she was supported by other women, wondering "who talks to a 
girl like that", and advising the employees leaving the minibus to "go 
fight themselves" 
(https://longread.strana.today/news/457120-video-mobilizatsii-v-odesse-voenkom-pokryl-matom-zhenshchin-na-ostanovke-i-v-marshrutke.html 
).

On one of the shuttle buses, passengers fought off a man from TCC 
employees, accusing them of trying to take a bribe. The corresponding 
video was posted by the Ukrainian publication "Strana". In the video, a 
woman does not allow a military registration and enlistment office 
employee to approach a minibus passenger: "Have you decided to earn a 
bribe from him? I know how much you earn - $400 if on the street, $3 
thousand if you work in a shopping mall." The military commissar 
demanded to stop filming, citing the fact that the checkpoint, next to 
which the minibus stopped, could be included in the frame. The 
passengers did not agree: "We have the right, we are not removing the 
checkpoint," said one of the passengers. In Izmail, Odessa region, a 
video showed how a resident escaped mobilization on the street. He 
immediately told the TCC employees not to "even think of approaching" 
and threatened to use a gas canister. "Heroes do not serve themselves, 
they are looking for people," said the man 
(https://focus.ua/voennye-novosti/616981-ne-podhodite-ko-mne-v-odesskoy-oblasti-muzhchina-izbezhal-mobilizacii-socseti-video 
).

Chat rooms in Transcarpathia publish a video of the conflict with the 
TCC in the village of Onokovtsy near Uzhgorod. Local residents were 
unhappy that the military commissars set up a checkpoint where they 
issued summonses to the men. "Why don't any of you go to the front line, 
but catch the poor while we collect cans (donations) for the guys. Now 
people will come here with pitchforks, we will throw stones at you," the 
woman says in the video. During the scandal, a car with Lviv license 
plates, which was stopped for inspection, was decided to be allowed 
through ( https://tlgrm.ru/channels/@stranaua/139650 )

Real women's "detachments" have appeared in Uzhgorod, which do not allow 
military commissars to detain men. Throughout the day they followed the 
military commissars, interfered with them and fought off the men. To 
hide from vigilant women, TCC employees even switched from their bus to 
a passenger car, but this did not help them ( 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FiQKx28lgQM?feature=share )

In a video from the Rivne region, a group of men and women stopped a bus 
on which TCC employees were transporting a mobilized man. Those who 
stopped forced him to let him out of the car and explained that he had 
every right to leave. "Who gave you the right to take people?" - they 
asked the military commissars, demanding that they show permission ( 
https://t.me/spletnicca/13420 )

And in Kiev, on the central Independence Square, relatives of those sent 
to the front held a rally on February 11 demanding that those who were 
finally mobilized return home after 18 months of military service ( 
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-kyiv/3825700-na-majdani-nezaleznosti-rodini-vijskovih-vimagaut-vstanoviti-rozumni-termini-mobilizacii.html 
).

A real anti-mobilization riot broke out in February in the village of 
Kosmach, Ivanovo-Frankivsk region. On February 6, local residents 
blocked the road, setting up "checkpoints against the TCC," and stated 
that they would not let the TCC "hunters" out of the village, who help 
the military commissars track down and capture those who do not want to 
be mobilized. They forced those wishing to pass to present their mobile 
phones. A crowd of women intercepted a car on the way out, in which a 
woman and a child were sitting, accusing the newcomer of coming "to rat 
out their husbands." They began to beat those in the car, but left them 
when it turned out that "this is the wrong car" and a mistake had 
occurred. After this, the regional police decided to switch to an 
enhanced mode of service in communities ( 
https://t.me/MediaKiller2021/11381 ). After this, TCC representatives 
held a meeting with the local community. The case ended in a loud 
scandal. In the video you can see how residents of Kosmach ask military 
commissars whether war has been declared in Ukraine, from whom exactly 
should residents defend Ukraine, from whom exactly should they repel 
aggression, why "they take people away, twist their arms and people 
disappear" and how long will this continue business on human lives. "A 
shame!" - the residents shouted ( 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFag6DZCM0o ).

Discontent and protests are causing real rage among the Ukrainian 
far-right, who openly threaten the dissatisfied with mass fascist 
terror. Thus, the commander of the 1181st brigade, Stuzhenko, demanded 
that those who refuse to get out of the car at the request of TCC 
representatives should have their knees shot ( 
https://znaj.ua/kompromat/477074-zarahovaniy-do-brigadi-ale-u-formi-tilki-robit-foto-ukrajincyam-rozpovili-pro-sina-anatoliya-stuzhenka-yakiy-zaklikav-strilyati-kolina-uhilyantam 
). And Dikiy, a former company commander of the far-right Aidar 
battalion, accused by Amnesty International of war crimes, accused the 
village of Kosmach of "high treason." He threatened that the army, after 
the protests in Kosmach, would "clean up" the cities and villages of 
Ukraine that resist mobilization as enemy territory ( 
https://www.ukr.net/ru/news/details/ivano_frankivsk/102688966.html ).

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