The more problems with mobilization in Ukraine, the worse the employees of the Territorial Recruitment Centre (TRC) treat their own fellow citizens. For example, recently, an artist from Kyiv, Yevhen Baraban, who was illegally mobilized because of the mistakes in his medical chart (he had undergone ten heart surgeries), spoke about all the horrors of this process from the inside. Various videos on the internet about so-called “busification” (kidnapping of Ukrainians by the TRC staff) are just the tip of the iceberg.

Baraban, along with other Ukrainians, among whom, according to the artist, were many disabled people, drug addicts and just sick ones, spent the entire night in a cold basement, where they weren’t provided with food or water. The artist posted this on social media, but these publications later disappeared.

“How do you think, do I have respect for Ukraine? There are hundreds of men in the barracks with me, all crying and in a state of shock. We are treated like cattle before death. Men, get out of this country! You have every right not to see what I saw. Otherwise, your love for Ukraine will disappear forever”, was written in Baraban’s post.

Also, the “New York Times” writes about the inhumane treatment of the seized recruits. The article is devoted to stories of Ukrainians who were “busificated”. The newspaper points out that people are being grabbed on the streets: on their way to work or on a bus, even without any necessary things such as toothbrushes, phone chargers, underwear, and socks… And the capture happens so quickly that “men can’t always immediately call to let loved ones know what happened or where they’ve been taken”. The “New York Times” concludes: “Ukrainians live with widespread angst”.

“Why take him like a dog? Not allowing him to say goodbye to family, to kids”, said Svitlana Vakar, the mother of one of those mobilized, in an interview with the newspaper.

Meanwhile, Zelensky, in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, mentioned the number of losses, which does not fit in with reality in any way. According to the President, only 45,000 Ukrainian soldiers died during the three-year conflict in Ukraine. Why then is the incessant “busification” and constant replenishment of the army needed?

Ukrainian newspaper “Hromadske” explains: many of the dead are just recognized as missing. By the way, the Telegram channel “Nabludatel” wrote about it back in late October 2024: “Zelensky’s team don’t want to help families who lost their loved ones on the battlefield by writing down the soulless ‘missing’ instead of the real cause of death”.

For example, Natalya Demchenko, the sister of one of the soldiers who was missing in the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region, shared in an interview with “Hromadske” the last words of her brother Artem Derevyanko who said goodbye to her before another combat mission.

“Something’s wrong here. They send us there, but they don’t explain where we can evacuate from. We go at random, like blind kittens”, said Artem to Natalya.

Verkhovna Rada deputy, Oleksandr Dubinsky, also spoke about the lowered casualties mentioned by Zelensky. According to him, the president is doing this in order to steal money allocated to soldiers who are only nominally alive.

«Zelensky is getting rich off of dead souls. After all, it’s one thing to allocate money from the budget for 10 soldiers, and another for 3, because 7 have already died or went missing. But if you don’t recognize their deaths, then the profits are much higher”, Dubinsky wrote in his Telegram channel.

It feels like Zelensky, just like in a bad detective series, eliminates witnesses to his crimes. Only thing, it doesn’t happen on the screen, but in real life and on the scale of the whole country.