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

An increasing number of people do not want to fight for the interests of 
the ruling classes. The actions of Ukrainian military commissars, who 
grab people right on the streets in order to send them to the front, 
cause growing hatred in society. Someone simply avoids mobilization, 
often with the help of others; others turn to open protests. ---- The 
exact number of draft dodgers throughout the country is unknown. In the 
Ivano-Frankivsk region alone, according to the authorities, about 40 
thousand people are wanted as those who failed to appear at the TCC 
(military registration and enlistment offices) on a draft summons ( 
https://www.ukr.net/ru/news/details/criminal/103574462. html ). The 
authorities are reacting increasingly nervously to the refusal to go to 
the front. In 2023, 60 sentences with real terms were handed down across 
the country for this ( https://opendatabot.ua/analytics/avoiding-army-2023 )

Clashes between residents and military registration and enlistment 
office employees occur constantly. Some scenes are captured on video, 
which then circulates on social media. Thus, in Odessa, local public 
pages in February published a video of one of these conflicts: first, a 
woman tried to hit a military commissar with her backpack, but he 
dodged; then the man, trying to hide from the "mobilizer," grabbed a 
stone; The warrior blasted the rebel in the face with a gas canister, 
and then began beating him ( https://t.me/stranaua/145057 ).

At the beginning of March, a video from Zaporozhye was distributed, 
which shows how residents are fighting back against military commissars 
( https://www.youtube.com/live/q3RROLq9XJ0?si=fZBXQUsxzgEJEGbu ). In the 
week leading up to the video's appearance, there were reportedly many 
clashes with police and TCC employees.

Residents of Ukraine say that people organize themselves and, in the 
event of an attack by military commissars, quickly call up, gather and 
fight back.

In some places the confrontation becomes more violent.

In Mukachevo on February 20, unknown persons beat up a military man 
(https://unn.ua/news/u-mukachevi-mistsevi-pobyly-viiskovoho-z-ttsk-politsiia-vidkryla-kryminalne-provadzhennia).

In the village of Ploska, Chernivtsi region, on March 7, two men, 43 and 
28 years old, attacked military registration and enlistment office 
employees near the Gorlecha checkpoint. First, one of the attackers, 
sitting on a horse and holding an ax in his hand, came into conflict 
with the military. Then a car rushed towards the military commissars at 
high speed, trying to knock them down. The car turned around and another 
man with an ax jumped out. Both attacked the military commissars and 
began hitting them on the shoulder and forearm with the butt of the ax. 
The window of the military car was also broken. After getting into the 
car, the attackers drove away, but were later captured ( 
https://unn.ua/news/na-bukovyni-choloviky-z-sokyramy-napaly-na-pratsivnykiv-ttsk-politsiia-zatrymala-pidozriuvanykh).

In Novovolynsk (Volyn region), on March 21, a conscript attacked TCC 
employees with a knife, who came to ask why he did not come to the 
military registration and enlistment office on the summons. One of the 
military commissars was wounded in the stomach 
(https://24tv.ua/ru/volyni-muzhchina-napal-voennyh-nozhom-tck-rasskazali-podrobnosti_n2522728 
).

In Svetlovodsk (Kirovograd region), on March 24, around midnight, an 
unknown person threw two Molotov cocktails into the building of the 
Alexandria district military registration and enlistment office. The 
fire was quickly extinguished. If arrested, the protester faces up to 10 
years in prison ( 
https://strana.news/news/461004-neizvestnyj-brosil-dva-koktejlja-molotova-v-ttsk-v-kirovohradskoj-oblasti.html).

In some places open protests break out. On March 1, in Buchach (Ternopil 
region), people came to the city council and demanded a meeting with the 
mayor and the military commissar. They were outraged by the death of a 
49-year-old mobilized in the TCC. Most of those who gathered were 
residents of a village from the Chertkovsky district, where the deceased 
was from, but people from neighboring communities also joined ( 
https://t.me/te20hvylyn/21159 ). According to the official version, the 
man died from an epileptic attack. The protesters demanded an 
explanation of what happened. The sister of the deceased stated that her 
brother was taken to the TCC on February 25: "He called and said that he 
was taken to the military registration and enlistment office. That knows 
nothing, waits. I told him several times: whoever comes to you, tell him 
that you have epilepsy, you were in the hospital... My brother said that 
no one came to him or asked anything," the woman said. On February 27, 
the man's mother at the TCC was informed by phone that he was in 
intensive care. Relatives went to the hospital and found out that the 
man was in a coma. On February 29 he died. The sister of the deceased 
says that he was hospitalized twice due to epilepsy, which is supported 
by documents ( https://t.me/MediaKiller2021/11716 ).

In Transcarpathia, on March 25, people blocked roads in the Mukachevo 
region, protesting against mass mobilization in the region. Protesters 
go to pedestrian crossings so that there is no reason to punish them for 
violating traffic rules. However, the police tried to disperse the 
crowd. Reportedly, the announcement of the event was distributed on 
social networks: those who could not be mobilized were called upon to 
come to the protest: women, people over 60 years of age and citizens 
with many children. True, the initiators of the action have not yet 
decided to openly oppose mobilization as such: they only demand that 
subpoenas be served "only by a civilized and legal method" ( 
https://t.me/MediaKiller2021/12021 ). However, as fellow anarchists from 
Ukraine explained, "legally, we cannot have mobilization at all, because 
martial law cannot be extended so many times."

The commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, Pavlyuk, complained that 
persecution of TCC employees had begun in Ukraine. They are treated as 
enemies and called "ludolov". "We have reached the point of bullying the 
military from the TCC and moral support for evading the defense of 
Ukraine," he wrote in a post ( 
https://www.facebook.com/AFULFComm/posts/pfbid02f39phUbF8kexKNGAq7apxBEzrMxp5NCnffX6zPMfAL32sn8fNTLkpcreDb8CCPKgl?locale=uk_UA)

MEANWHILE...

In Russia, a group of deputies and members of the Federation Council has 
prepared another bill that toughens penalties for evading mobilization. 
According to it, those who officially received a summons but did not 
appear at the recruiting station may be sentenced to a fine of up to 500 
thousand rubles or imprisonment for up to 5 years 
(https://www.forbes.ru/society/480546-v-gosdume-utocnili-ideu-ob-ugolovnoj-otvetstvennosti-za-uklonenie-ot-mobilizacii).

https://aitrus.info/node/6208
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