Kyiv’s enlistment office acknowledged that it is mobilizing homeless people

In the Kyiv Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center, officials acknowledged that homeless people are being mobilized off the streets in Ukraine.

This was stated by Oleh Baidaliuk, spokesperson for the Kyiv Regional draft office, in an interview with the media.

According to him, in this way enlistment officers are supposedly enforcing Ukrainian law.

“Whether a person is homeless or not—if the Military Medical Commission indicates that the person is fit for service in a combat unit, not even a rear unit but a combat one, what can we do? We enforce the Law of Ukraine. Homeless or not—on what basis can we write that because a person lacks a permanent residence, they cannot serve?” Baidaliuk said.

He also suggested that a homeless person “might not live on the street permanently, but in some hotel.”

At the same time, Baidaliuk says there is no “mass phenomenon where all the homeless in Kyiv region are taken and brought to the TRSSC to serve in the infantry.”

Earlier, Dmytro Kukharchuk, deputy commander of the 3rd Army Corps, said that in recent times TRSSCs have started bringing more homeless people to training centers.

Volodymyr Sheredeha of the Kyiv TRSSC, call sign “Shamil,” in turn stated that TRSSC staff can mobilize anyone, regardless of health condition or the presence of documents granting exemption from service.