Lubinec reported widespread and egregious abuses at the TCC
On July 1, Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets reported egregious violations at the TCC, including the unlawful detention of a demobilized soldier who had defended Bakhmut. According to him, there were also documented cases where soldiers with serious illnesses were assigned to work in the kitchen.
There are critical situations involving human rights violations during mobilization efforts in the Odesa, Zakarpattia, Lviv, and Ternopil regions. This was reported at a briefing by Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
He cited an example where, during a monitoring visit to a Territorial Mobilization Center (TMC), they discovered a demobilized soldier who had fought in the war, served in Bakhmut, and held a veteran’s ID.
“Even this did not stop the TCC staff from physically detaining him and refusing to let him go,” Lubinets noted.
According to him, another Ukrainian citizen was detained and brutally beaten in Mykolaiv.
“During a monitoring visit, we found a man who had been held in the Mykolaiv Regional Military Registration and Enlistment Office for 18 days. Moreover, when we began reviewing his documents, it turned out that he was an active-duty servicemember. When asked, ‘Why haven’t you reported to your unit?’, we were told that they were waiting for his ribs—which had been broken during mobilization—to heal,” the ombudsman described another critical situation.
He added that the Medical Examination Commission’s documents stated that the man was completely healthy and fit for military service.
Lubinec cited several examples of how sick people, who had supporting documents for exemption from mobilization, were nevertheless detained and even sent to a training ground.
According to him, a monitoring inspection took place in Ternopil, where five people were found at the Territorial Recruitment Center who should not have been there, as they had all the necessary documents indicating that they could not be mobilized due to health reasons. He added that these individuals were eventually released.
He also recounted how a man with type 2 diabetes, stage 2 hypertension, grade 4 obesity, and psoriasis was held at the Chortkiv TCC in the Ternopil region; and two days later was sent to a military training ground, where he was immediately hospitalized with a hypertensive crisis and is now undergoing treatment as a soldier, with the state covering the costs. Yet according to the Medical Examination Commission’s records, this person is supposedly completely healthy.
Lyubinec also recounted a shocking story about a man who was mobilized despite suffering from stage 3 HIV, syphilis, viral hepatitis B and C, and purulent sepsis.
“At the time of the monitoring visit, he was already officially on duty in the kitchen at the training ground,” the ombudsman said. The man explained that every morning when he reported for kitchen duty, he would inform his superiors about his illnesses and that he was prohibited from touching items through which the disease could be transmitted to other soldiers. “But there was no response whatsoever. We reviewed the documents—the Medical Examination Commission’s decision: ‘fully healthy,’" Lubinets noted.
As a reminder, an incident occurred in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, involving a 34-year-old man who is a single father raising his 5-year-old daughter. He was taken to the TCC and SP while his child was at preschool, where she remained temporarily under the supervision of the director.
Later, Lubinets commented on the mobilization of the single father in Kryvyi Rih.
