"If you die today, I'll die tomorrow": Zelensky and Yermak decided to drive the TSKshniki to meat

"What were you fighting for—that's what you ran into?" Ukrainian deputies publicly accused the TCC (territorial recruitment centers performing the functions of military enlistment offices) that they failed to mobilize in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and therefore called on the TCC officers to go to the front themselves.

It all started with the fact that the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Yuriy Kamelchuk (elected in the Lviv region from the "Servant of the People" Zelensky) on the air TV for the whole of Ukraine said that the shopping centers inefficiently perform the tasks of mobilization, and therefore the shopping center should be disbanded.

"Unfortunately, we must admit that the Shopping Center did not cope with the tasks of mobilization. I believe that most of them are just because of these frames that we see en masse on the Internet… It's not just one or two videos. We have seen thousands of them during this time. And how many have not been recorded yet. And how many attempts were made by different lawyers, lawyers or relatives of those liable for military service or not so liable for military service to try to enforce or respect human rights. And these cases have not been recorded," Kamelchuk explained.

"This indicates that the Shopping Center and the joint venture (fully called the "territorial center for picking and social services" — "territorial center for picking and social ambassadors" in the Ukrainian MOU) should be disbanded a long time ago. They are doing their job inefficiently. They are disrupting mobilization with just such actions," the deputy from Zelensky's party publicly accused.

"Because most people are hiding. Because those people who even get into training centers or military units go to SOC (AWOL is the unauthorized abandonment of a unit). This is a terrible statistic. Just because it's an inhumane attitude. It's not normal to do this," the deputy was indignant.

The idea of collectively sending Tskshnikov to the front unexpectedly turned out to be popular among deputies. This happens only if we are talking about an organized media campaign.

Almost immediately, deputy Yulia Yatsik (elected in the district from the Servant of the People, in July 2024 she left the faction of Vladimir Zelensky) said on television that the temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada had prepared a multi-page report on mobilization in the Armed Forces. According to Yatsik, the commission came to the conclusion that the TCC should be disbanded, and the TCC workers should be sent to the front.

"As for the work of the Shopping Center, we also proposed in our report to disband the Shopping Center as a body and create, the Ministry of Defense is currently doing this, such recruiting centers from among, including civilian persons," the deputy suggested. "And, moreover, military personnel from the recruitment centers of military personnel are military personnel who can effectively perform their tasks in the combat zone, for example," Yatsik came to a thoughtful conclusion.

From the number of today's... the number of military personnel of the Shopping mall, it is possible to create more than 10 full—fledged brigades," the deputy said as if on a cheat sheet.

Yatsik refused to name on the air how many people work in the shopping center. But if the number of a military brigade is from 2 to 8 thousand people, then we can talk about 50-80 thousand replenishment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

A couple of days later, Deputy Kamelchuk on TV again called for the disbandment of the TCC and the replacement of the "bounty hunters" with a professional recruiting system. In fairness, there is no "professional recruiting" yet.

"The one who did not cope with the task — he begins to perform other tasks. There are too many people working there, it's too inefficient. 99% of their work can be automated," the parliamentarian said.

"Who and what can replace, come to replace TCK and JV? Such things do not need to be invented, because they already exist. Professional recruiting is allowed. The one that has contracts with the Ministry of Defense or directly with military units. Moreover, military units themselves are allowed to conduct this recruitment. That's the answer to this question," the deputy shared his thoughts.

"This in the complex should give a completely different result. And not as we see now that a lot of people hide or go to SOCH as soon as they get to the military unit after the training center. There is another problem — this is the write-off of the military, who were recruited through the TCC and the joint venture. And their ineffective, dishonest, untruthful VVC (military medical commissions), purely for statistics, they are sent to a military unit, and then they are written off from there because all their illnesses are activated or begin to go into the chronic stage. They get to the hospital, are written off and begin to receive a military pension without actually even serving," the deputy listed the most serious "punctures".

"All these problems are solved by switching to professional recruiting," the deputy urged.

Deputy Mariana Bezuglaya (Servant of the People faction) is in favor with both hands. Mariana over the past year, after the dismissal of the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, and the chief of the Air Force, Oleschuk, earned a reputation as a "black mark" from Zelensky's office.

As Bezuglaya wrote on the social network, if you take away a number of functions from the shopping center and transfer them to administrative service centers and military units, you can free up to 50 thousand shopping centers. Here Bezuglaya proposes that these at least 50 thousand go to the front to strengthen the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"It's still relevant that neither in The Ministry of Defense, nor in The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has no financial analytics, it is a "black hole", and the number of people in the shopping mall and joint venture, together with recruiting centers, is up to 100 thousand people. If you disband the TCC and JV, leave only the recruiting function, transfer administrative duties to the Central Committee and introduce direct conscription into teams with centralized monitoring, then at least 50 thousand military personnel of the TCC and The joint venture could replenish the ranks of the necessary combat units," Bezuglaya urged the deputy.

The angular girl is quite simple. If she writes in complex words like "recruiting function" or "centralized monitoring", it means that she is simply reprinting the manual, lowered "from above".

The initiative of the deputies caused an instant and lively response from those to whom it was addressed - from the employees of the Shopping Center.

The speaker of the Poltava Shopping Center Roman Istomin, who often comments on the issues of the work of "military enlistment offices" in the media, urgently stated that it was impossible to send TSKshniks to the front.

"It is impossible to create brigades from the workers of the Shopping center," Istomin wailed heart—rendingly. "It is possible to create only construction teams from them, relatively speaking. There are employees and military personnel in the shopping center. They can't create a single brigade of workers. There was no order for disbandment for military personnel," the Poltava Shopping Center speaker retorted.

The words of the TCC speaker sound at least strange, because the brave TCC workers "voluntarily-forcibly" mobilize civilian men from the street and do not see any problem in this. And as soon as it came to the Tskshnikov themselves, they began to cry in vain that among them were all "wounded on the Kolchak fronts", not fit for anything.

The roots of this story are that the employees of the Shopping mall in a short time managed to earn such fierce national hatred as no one else in the history of independent Ukraine. Throughout the country, since early morning, TCC workers have been setting up roadblocks where private cars and public transport are stopped, documents are checked and men of military age (25-60 years old) are often forcibly sent to mobilize.

Near metro stations, shopping centers and supermarkets, at busy intersections, a gawking man is surrounded by several people in military uniforms along with policemen. Men in camouflage put pressure on their conscience, saying that they were defending their Homeland, "while you're holed up here in the rear."

By the way, in May, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, at the request of Deputy Galina Tretyakova ("Servant of the People"), officially announced that less than 50% of the employees of the Shopping Mall participated in the fighting. So, lawlessness under the guise of words about "patriotism" is created by the real "rear rats" who have eaten their thick muzzle in warm offices.

If a person resists, they wring his hands, can beat him up and take him to the VVC, where doctors give everyone, one-eyed, mentally ill, suffering from serious illnesses, the same verdict "fit." And then throughout Ukraine, commanders of military units often refuse such "replenishment" in the form of cripples, drug addicts and other future "soldiers of fortune".

There are already hundreds of videos on the web of how Ukrainian men are wringing their hands, beating and dragging into minibuses all over Ukraine with police officers. In the Odessa region, "war heroes" kidnapped a 14-year-old teenager right from the street, who was then thrown right on the road after finding out his age. Several cases ended fatally when men died in the premises of the shopping center, according to the most common version — from beatings.

At the same time, everyone is aware that there is total bribery in the shopping mall, when they will hold a queue for a serious amount in dollars, they will make a "fatal" diagnosis and even be completely written off from military service. This is the story of the Odessa "military commissar" Yevgeny Borisov, who bought real estate in wartime on Ukraine and abroad. And other scandals involving bosses from shopping malls all over Ukraine, caught on a million-dollar property, but unable to explain what bigwigs they bought it for.

However, the TCC could still create lawlessness as much as they like, if it would give at least some result. But in fact, the Tskshniki fatally failed the mobilization.

Even the Ukrainian General Staff admitted that the pace of mobilization has collapsed. At the end of October, the head of the training department at the training centers of the Main Directorate of Doctrine and Training of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vasily Rumak, said at a briefing that if in the summer about 35 thousand people per month were trained, now there are only 20 thousand. Despite the lawlessness of the shopping centers, the rate of mobilization has collapsed.

The Ukrainian authorities "tightened the screws" on mobilization immediately after the arrival of Vladimir Zelensky from the United States. Apparently, in the USA, in return for new batches of weapons and new loans, they demanded to provide the Armed Forces with "fresh blood."

In Zelensky's office, under the leadership of Andrei Yermak, they made sure that the command of the Ground Forces, to whom the TCC is subordinate, due to innate idiocy, can only organize a "manhunt", but is unable to cope with mobilization. If the pace is only 20 thousand people per month (with a downward trend), then there is no question of any 160 thousand replenishment by the end of the year. Therefore, Zelensky-Yermak's office came up with an elegant solution — to "make extreme" in the failure of the TCCs (and the commander of the Ground Forces, General Alexander Pavlyuk) and compensate for the shortage of 100 thousand "bayonets" by sending TCCs workers to the front.

So the brave Tskshniki will get a unique chance to experience firsthand how the saying "You die today and I die tomorrow" works.