A woman attacked a TCC employee in Kostopol, a western Ukrainian city where the regional recruitment center operates as a military registration and enlistment office. A video of the incident circulated online. It is suggested that a military man may have helped the woman’s relative onto the minibus after the registration at the TCC.
In the footage, the attacker kicks the TCC employee, calls him a monster, and uses obscene language.
On November 9, reports quoted the woman saying that military commissars kidnapped her husband and kept him in a basement without food or water. She says the man went to the Ivano-Frankivsk region on business at the start of the month and then stopped communicating. He reportedly managed to call his wife from another number and claimed he was forcibly detained and forced to sign documents. She added that witnesses saw him being mocked and beaten.
Since October, Ukraine has seen forced mobilization. Military commissars and police have raided shopping malls, gas stations, sports clubs, and resorts. They have also raided city markets. Men are recruited even if they hold deferments and military service certificates, and recruitment is carried out at the military registration and enlistment offices.
Earlier reports described actions against officials accused of taking bribes, including incidents where a gas canister was directed at a commissar.