‘Hunting for people.’ The mayor of Chernivtsi complained about the ‘mindless mobilization’ at the city train station

Chernivtsi Mayor Roman Klichuk stated that employees of the territorial recruitment center are searching for draft dodgers at the railway station, which deters visitors from coming to the city.

He made this statement at a press conference at the city hall.

“Due to the thoughtless mobilization happening, according to my information, exclusively in Chernivtsi, at the railway station, it looks practically like a hunt for people, for city guests. Now everyone is afraid to travel to Chernivtsi. At this rate, no transport will come to Chernivtsi soon — neither buses nor trains,” the mayor said.

According to him, because of such actions, people have stopped getting off at the station and are choosing other modes of transport to travel to the city.

“Because no one is coming to Chernivtsi, and no one is leaving Chernivtsi, ‘Ukrzaliznytsia’ is justifiably seeing a decrease in passenger traffic and is cutting routes to save money. I would address this issue to the military administration and the territorial recruitment center,” Klichuk added.

It should be noted that in neighboring Ivano-Frankivsk region, border guards stop people at railway stations to look for draft dodgers attempting to flee to Europe through the mountains.