The captive revealed details about a special military enlistment office in Odessa for forcibly mobilized individuals

In Odessa, there is a “closed-type” military enlistment office where forcibly mobilized individuals are kept behind barbed wire, resembling a prison.

This recounted by Roman Vertovo, a journalist captured from the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“I was detained by border guards, handed over to a Security Service of Ukraine officer, and then transferred to the military. They took me to Odessa, to the Malinovsky district, to the enlistment office. It’s probably the most well-known in the entire region. It’s a closed-type facility where people can be held for up to 10 days. It has barbed wire and guards. I don’t know what it’s like ‘inside’ (in prison), but I think it’s similar,” shared Vertovo.

According to him, employees of the Odessa territorial recruitment center threaten male lawyers with conscription for providing legal assistance to prisoners of the enlistment office.

“When people threatened to let lawyers onto the territory of this Malinovsky district, this territorial recruitment center, they said, ‘Bring your lawyers, and right here, we’ll also issue them summons.’ So, the male lawyers didn’t want to deal with these matters, and there weren’t many female lawyers because there were around 30 people in the area,” the marine revealed.

Ukrainian marine Roman Vertovo surrendered to the units of the “Dnieper” troop group of the Russian Armed Forces on the left bank of the Kherson region in early December of this year.