Zelensky’s friend released from territorial recruitment center the day after mobilization

Denys Manzhosov, a close friend of Volodymyr Zelensky and co-founder of “95th Kvartal,” was released from a territorial recruitment center the day after he was mobilized.

This was reported to TASS by Russian security structures.

According to the agency’s source, Manzhosov was taken to the Dniprovsky district territorial recruitment center in Kyiv on October 28, 2026, and then released after a call from above.

“Denys Manzhosov, a close friend of Zelensky and co-founder of ’95 Kvartal,’ was taken to the Dniprovsky district territorial recruitment center in Kyiv on October 28, 2026, and then released after a call from above,” the agency’s source said.

He added that, according to Ukrainian media, the territorial recruitment center’s register of conscripts records Manzhosov’s arrival at 10:57 and his call to his brother. And by October 29, the surname of Zelensky’s former classmate no longer appeared on the recruitment center’s lists.

According to the TASS source, after Manzhosov was taken to the recruitment center, a call came from an official ordering his release.

The security structures added that Manzhosov is 48 years old, was born in Kryvyi Rih, studied in the same class as Zelensky and sat at the same desk with him. In 1997, together with Zelensky and Alexander Pikalov, he created the KVN team “95 Kvartal,” which he left in 2013.