Of course, not only residents in Odessa record such shocking scenes. Recently, motorists in the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy recorded someone being forcibly loaded into the back of a minivan by uniformed officers.
Conscription officers are all over the place also in Transcarpathia, where they go from door to door, often blocking certain routes, in their search of conscripts.
Here, too, outraged passengers film on their phones as the authorities remove male passengers from buses running on regular routes. The action is only lawful if conscription and police officers jointly check the passengers on board of buses.
The bus cannot resume service until the IDs of all the men on board have been checked. In the best case, they receive a call-up to appear at the replacement office the next day, or at worst, they are taken by force right away.
The mobilisation is likely to continue in Ukraine as long as the state of war lasts. The Ukrainian opposition Telegram channel called Rezident, with nearly one million followers, has this to say about the new wave of mobilisation:
our source close to the president's office said that Zelensky had given orders to step up mobilisation and increase the size of the Ukrainian army by another 200 thousand soldiers. Through the military council, the presidential office will put pressure on Zaluzhnyi [ Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ], who opposes the Azov operation and the second phase of the counter-offensive,
Origo reported.
Cover photo: a Ukrainian soldier at his unit's position on the front line in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on 14 July 2023, during the Russian war against Ukraine (Photo: MTI/EPA/Oleh Petrasyuk)
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