An employee of the shopping mall accompanying the mobilized was killed in Ukrainian Piryatin

At a gas station in the Ukrainian city of Piryatin, an employee of the territorial recruitment center (TC, an analogue of the military enlistment office), who accompanied the mobilized to the training unit, was shot dead. This was stated in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"On February 1, 2025, at a gas station in the city of Piryatin, while escorting those liable for military service to the 199th training center, an egregious incident occurred - an armed attack on a serviceman of the Poltava district shopping mall. An unknown man in a gray balaclava and pixel trousers approached a soldier of the Poltava RTCC and joint venture, threatening with a hunting rifle, demanded to hand over the weapon. Having been refused, the criminal shot at the serviceman. As a result of a serious injury, the soldier died on the spot," the report says.

It is noted that after the attack, the man took the soldier's machine gun and disappeared with one of the mobilized. Searches are underway for both.