A volunteer has accused a Territorial Recruitment Center of threatening to kill her and her loved ones over a post about the death of a mobilized soldier

Transcarpathian volunteer Vlasta Reipaši says that the leadership of the regional Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center (TCC and SP) is threatening to kill her and her family because she posted in September about the death at a training ground of mobilized soldier Vyacheslav Bek, an insulin-dependent father of three.

She wrote about the threats on her Facebook page.

According to her, her relatives have begun receiving systematic group threats from officials of the Transcarpathian Regional TCC and SP, whose names she listed in the post: Colonel Andriy Savchuk, Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Bovkunenko, and Colonel Denys Voloshyn.

Reipaši was outraged that in her original autumn post about Bek’s death she did not accuse anyone; she merely reported the death of the son of her fellow volunteer and publicly appealed to the city council and the Uzhhorod TCC with a request to help ensure he was buried as a serviceman. However, from that moment on, she says, threats began. Pressure is also being exerted on her husband — a volunteer veteran who, due to a wound, had been transferred to work at the TCC.

“First, Colonel Denys Voloshyn, first deputy head of the Transcarpathian Regional TCC and SP, summoned him and said the following phrase: ‘Tell your wife to delete the post or change it! There are cars standing around, and sometimes they explode!’ After that, my husband was called into Colonel Savchuk’s office, his phone was taken away, and he was threatened. Colonel Andriy Savchuk personally, in the presence of Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Bovkunenko and Lieutenant Colonel Hennadiy Bilyi, stated that he would take measures against me and my husband if something like that happened again,” Reipaši wrote.

Later, according to her, Voloshyn said:

“He and his wife will live, but not for long.”

After these threats, Vlasta’s husband fell ill; he was taken to the hospital and discharged in an even more serious condition, but the leadership ordered that he be transferred to the 29th Heavy Mechanized Brigade. After a suicide attempt and three weeks in the hospital, he was accused of desertion.

She also said that the family of the deceased Bek has still not received any of the payments due to them.

Earlier in the autumn, the media reproduced Reipaši’s post about the death of the ill mobilized soldier. She reported that at one of the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a mobilized man with a severe form of diabetes had died. It turned out to be 35-year-old Uzhhorod resident Vyacheslav Bek.