In the territorial recruitment center of Odesa, a junior sergeant was detained on suspicion of taking a bribe for not delivering a draft notice

Yesterday, Junior Sergeant Makarsky was detained at the Kyiv Territorial Recruitment Center in Odessa on suspicion of receiving a $3,000 bribe to avoid issuing a draft notice.

Sources in law enforcement shared this information with journalists.

“A staff member of the territorial recruitment center was detained while receiving a bribe from a conscript. After passing the military medical commission, the man was supposed to receive a mobilization notice. Makarsky demanded $3,000 to avoid issuing it,” the source said.

The recruitment center employee faces 8 to 12 years of imprisonment.

It is worth noting that yesterday in Odessa, there was a mass brawl involving paramedics, recruitment officers and people with bats outside the territorial recruitment center. 

The Odessa Territorial Recruitment Center commented on the incident, claiming that the fight was “provoked by unknown civilians.”

Paramedic Bohdan Velychko explained the events leading to the brawl between the medics and recruitment officers. According to him, upon arrival at the recruitment center, the medics saw a man with head injuries, nausea and in poor physical condition. The military insisted that the man did not need medical assistance and did not allow him to be taken to the hospital. When the medics tried to remove the man from the recruitment center’s premises, the military attacked them, twisting their arms, trying to handcuff them and forcing them to sit on a bench.