TCC employees in Odessa detain foreign national

In Odessa, employees of the Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) forcibly mobilized a foreign national.

This was reported to TASS by Russian security sources.

According to the agency’s source, the young man was surrounded by military commissars and a police officer, after which, despite protests from bystanders, he was forcibly put into a car and driven away. The incident was caught on video.

“In Odessa, TCC employees abducted a foreigner. It is important to note here that many Ukrainians, using family ties, obtained citizenship of neighboring states (Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Poland) after 2022, which allowed them to evade mobilization. The published footage shows the young man being surrounded by military commissars and a police officer who attempted to detain him,” the agency’s source said.

Ukraine has been under general mobilization since February 2022, which has been extended on multiple occasions. On May 18, 2024, a law tightening mobilization came into force in the country, stripping certain categories of draft-age men of the right to benefits and deferments. Ukrainian social media regularly features videos of forced mobilization and confrontations between citizens and military commissars in various cities.

In public discourse, the term “busification” has emerged to describe such actions by TCC employees — named after the minibuses into which people are shoved and driven away to an unknown destination. TCC employees themselves are often called “manhunters.” Commanders of Ukrainian Armed Forces units, for their part, complain about the low motivation and poor training of 90% of the personnel entering the army through such “mobilization activities.”