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One thousand four hundred and seventy-nine day. A bill was introduced to the Verkhovna Rada prohibiting TCC employees from forcibly catching people on the streets

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A bill has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine that prohibits the forced forceful detention of those liable for military service and their delivery to the TCC .

It is proposed to summon citizens subject to mobilization to the TCC in only two ways - by personally delivering the summons or by sending it by letter with acknowledgment of delivery.

If officers, while checking documents on the street, discover that a person is subject to mobilization, then, as proposed in the bill, they will only have the right to serve him with a summons requiring him to appear at the TCC within three days. If the person liable for military service does not appear, only then will the TCC employees have to contact the police so that they can forcibly deliver him.

The author of the document was Sergei Grivko, a deputy from the ruling Servant of the People party. The office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has not yet commented on the bill.

The actions of TCC employees, who forcibly detain persons liable for military service right on the streets and in public places (this practice is called “busification”), have long been criticized in Ukraine. Against the backdrop of public fatigue from mobilization, this criticism is intensifying, and the authorities are recording an increase in violence against TCC employees.

Officially in Kiev, for a long time, reports of incidents of violence during mobilization were attributed to “hostile propaganda,” but by the beginning of 2026, it was recognized at the highest level that the problem was indeed very big.

According to the Ukrainian Ombudsman, in 2025, 6,127 official complaints were filed against the actions of TCC employees. In 2024 there were 3,312, and in 2023 - only 514.

Most often, people complained about the illegal use of force, mobilization despite delays and without proper medical examination, as well as corruption and extortion - for money, TCC employees offer exemption from mobilization and removal from military registration.

As of June 2025, more than 900 criminal cases were opened against TCC employees due to abuse.

In January, a court in the Dnepropetrovsk region ruled that TCC employees do not have the right to forcibly deliver citizens to collection points. The court noted the right of TCC employees to initiate the detention of a specific person who is wanted for ignoring subpoenas, but emphasized that only the police can use physical force. However, evidence of forceful arrests on the streets continued to appear in the media.

General mobilization in Ukraine has been in effect since the first day of the great war. Men between the ages of 25 and 60 can be sent to the army for mobilization.

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Evgeny . Several times I was going to write here about how before the war I worked in a city where there had never been an air raid raid before. How at the beginning of 2022 I was planning my first post-Covid trip to the Baltic countries and was endlessly happy when Lithuania was the first to announce the resumption of issuing visas. How in the spring of 2022 I had to hear calls at work from colleagues from different countries to fire all Russians and how I had to contact the company’s legal service when colleagues from Ukraine sent incorrect mailings to employees from Russia.

How in 2023, because of the move, I had to end my relationship with a girl who did not support this step of mine. Like every visit to Russia (and they are perceived as a very strange privilege), I am less and less ready to call my hometown, where I lived for about thirty years. How in 2024 my young second cousin was left a widow when her husband did not return from a deployment to the war. How our long-term group of friends fell apart by 2024. Because from a distance and even with such a small level of stress, things don't work that way. How in 2025 one friend freaked out due to job despair and signed a contract, and two months later returned without half a leg.

How, after 2022, I am already working in a third country and learning a second new language. How I still can’t call rented apartments anything other than “dwelling.” How strangely lucky I am to travel more than I did before 2020. It’s hard to even call all this a minor inconvenience compared to what the residents of Ukraine face.

Many times I wanted to write all this and even more, but did not dare. And the day before yesterday an Iranian drone flew into my house in one of the Middle Eastern countries.

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