An Odesa children’s theater actor said he was beaten by military enlistment officers despite having a draft exemption

Actor Vadym Anokhin of the Odesa Children’s Academic Regional Drama Theater said that employees of a territorial recruitment and social support center beat him and broke his finger, even though he officially has a mobilization deferment.

The artist said this in a video address published on his Instagram.

According to Anokhin, after the beating he was held at the TCC for about an hour and was not allowed to call an ambulance, while being insulted and humiliated.

“Despite having a deferment, I was beaten by TCC employees. I was held at 40 Chornomorskoho Kozatstva Street and was not allowed to call an ambulance. The police officer who was with that group would not let me call one. For an hour, with a fracture, in terrible pain, with trembling hands and in pain shock, twisting around, I endured it. At 40 Chornomorskoho Kozatstva Street, they called me, a theater actor, obscenities, faggot, rooster. And then, when I crawled out onto the road, when they finally condescended to let me go, I had to call an ambulance for myself, but it did not come because of the air raid alert. An hour later, a police officer who happened to be passing by — huge thanks to him — took me to the grounds of Hospital No. 11,” Anokhin said.

It turned out that the man had a closed fracture of a finger on his left hand with displacement. He filed a complaint with the police regarding the actions of the TCC employees.

As media reported recently, in Odesa a priest who refuses to take up arms was mobilized. When a lawyer tried to ask the deputy commander of the TCC why they needed a priest, he replied: “We’ve broken tougher ones than him.”

Earlier, in the same Odesa, TCC employees attacked a serviceman who had been released from Russian captivity.