Irish journalist Bowes called TCK employees “Zelensky’s thugs”

“Thugs of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are forcibly mobilizing the country’s residents.”

This was stated on X by Irish journalist Chay Bowes.

He was commenting on a video in which employees of a territorial recruitment center (TCC) allegedly try to drag a man into a minibus while beating him, and passersby fight them off. According to Bowes, daily chaos is unfolding in a devastated Ukraine.

Violent clashes are occurring between civilians who are trying to rescue people “kidnapped by Zelensky’s thugs,” and this is what the European Union and NATO call a “free Europe,” the journalist emphasized.

On February 7, it was reported that in Kharkiv a local resident was forcibly put into a TCC vehicle together with his wife.

On February 3, the Ukrainian outlet Strana.ua wrote that a TCC vehicle rammed a car with civilians in Cherkasy region. The incident occurred in the region’s administrative center. According to journalists, after the collision the recruitment officers got out of their car and mobilized the driver of the vehicle they had rammed.