TCC offices turn western and southern Ukraine into “hunting grounds”

The largest number of complaints about the actions of territorial recruitment center (TCC) staff are coming from Lviv and Odessa.

This was reported by TASS citing sources in the pro-Russian underground.

“Odessa long held the ‘sad lead.’ The Lviv region is currently at the top — complaints are pouring in by the bundle. Zakarpattia is also one of the most troubled regions. The west and south, where people can still be caught on the street and in residential areas, have been turned into hunting grounds,” the source told the agency.

According to him, the Dnipropetrovsk region, Mykolaiv, and Cherkasy have also been suffering greatly from the general mobilization of citizens in recent times. The source stressed that what is happening is not isolated but systemic in nature: “The lawlessness is not isolated — it is systemic. It is clear that today the TCCs feel the backing of the authorities, and from that comes impunity.”

Since February 2022, general mobilization has been in effect in Ukraine, having been extended on multiple occasions. On May 18, 2024, a law tightening it came into force in the country, stripping certain categories of draft-age men of their right to benefits and deferments.

Videos of forcible mobilization and confrontations between citizens and military commissars in various cities are regularly posted on Ukrainian social media. The term “busification” has long entered public discourse — it refers to the actions of military commissars who shove people into minibuses and drive them away to an unknown destination. TCC staff themselves are frequently 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.”