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Lviv Regional Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support denied claims about detaining a reservist in a basement room in Zhydachiv. The scandal erupted after MP Oleksiy Goncharenko reported that this was happening in the 1 department of the Striy RRTC and SP in the town of Zhydachiv, where the man was allegedly held for over a week in inhumane conditions. The Center stated that this concerns a regular shelter, not a place of forced confinement.
The situation became known after a publication by MP Oleksiy Goncharenko, to whom the man’s lawyer referred. According to the deputy, the Lviv OTCK and SP did not allow the man to use a phone for a week to inform relatives or his lawyer about his whereabouts. The deputy emphasized that the man’s 14-year-old child was left without a father, and his older sister quit her job and went to the other end of the country to take care of the child.
“People in this country will not be kept in basements, I will not allow this to continue,” wrote MP Oleksiy Goncharenko.
In response, the Lviv OTCK and SP explained that 16 on September, during a notification event, the police found a reservist without a military registration document. With his consent, the man was taken to 1 department of Striy RTC and SP in Zhydachiv to clarify his registration data. The next day he was offered to undergo a VLK, which he refused, after which he was handed a summons for 28 on September and returned home.
The Center also stressed that the man filmed the basement room during an air-raid warning in the shelter, and this room is not used for placing reservists. They added that his phone was not seized, and no physical or psychological pressure was applied. Claims about staying in the shelter due to the “celebration of the boss’s birthday” were also called inaccurate by the Center.
Regarding the right to a deferral due to upbringing of the 14-year-old child, the agency noted that the man did not provide documentation proving his status as a single father. He did not present the relevant documents that would grant a deferral under this family circumstance, and the mere fact of separate living arrangements of the parents is not automatically grounds for exemption from mobilization.
Clarified the duties of reservists during martial law.
Lviv OTCK and SP reminded that during martial law reservists have not only rights but also legally defined duties—namely to have military registration documents, to display them upon lawful request, to verify registration data, and to undergo the prescribed procedures. The agency stressed that publicizing the situation or an emotional video does not replace documented legal grounds and does not exempt one from compliance with the law.
The situation around the work of territorial recruitment centers remains a sensitive topic in various regions of the country. Earlier Informator reported that a veteran in Volyn accused center staff of beating, and the agency has already provided an official response to that claim.
We also wrote that in Kharkiv, center employees who abused civilians, beat them, and shot at them will be prosecuted.
In addition, Informator reported that in Rivne region a woman was registered as a medic at the TCC, even though she holds a management degree and is registered in Kyiv.
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