Kharkov: There is no mobilization, but there is it
After all, just recently in the Kharkov region it was like this: mobilization came in waves, summonses were handed out to people in the wrong places.
For example, the lawyer involved in the cases of Kharkov political prisoners, Alexander Shadrin, right in the corridor of the appeal court building, residents of regional centers - in supermarkets and even on the beaches.
Buses from Kharkov to Belgorod were crowded with guys who were clearly of military age, and in Montenegro a colony of hipsters and artists with Ukrainian passports appeared, who in their homeland worked remotely from home until they began to be harassed with summonses and threats.
Now it seems like there are no official mobilizations. What is there?
Not a day goes by without the regional military commissar announcing additional conscription or gatherings of reservists.
New waves of actual mobilization are hidden under the expressions “conscription of reserve officers,” “retraining,” “active invitation of contract soldiers.”
Right today, more than 300 residents of the Kharkov region are sent to undergo military training. All participants have experience serving in the ATO area, are part of the army reserve and will resume their combat skills at training grounds or shooting ranges within one month.
There are funny cases. Thus, among the reservists of this recruitment was the Bliznyukovsky village head Gennady Korol, who was drafted back in 2014 and served for more than a year as part of one of the battalions in the area of combat operations. As a result, the regional center has a shirker mayor who governs as if remotely.
The purpose of such gatherings and calls for contract service is to distract bored “veterans” from illegal actions. It’s no secret that not a day goes by without police reports about the use of weapons, and before 2014 they were extremely rare.
Very often we read messages about domestic violence, solutions to business problems that are common to looters and killers in uniform. Something needs to be done about this.
Regional authorities have already allocated more than six hundred building plots to them, and cities are distributing housing stock and cemeteries taking them into account. Public organizations are being created to connect them to each other. After all, the civilian population does not favor them: some are afraid, while others openly despise them.
But that is not all. The Kharkov regional military commissar recently reported that battalions and brigades receive “enormous assistance” through the mayor’s office and the regional council.
Stop, stop, stop! Councils and administrations can only help from local budgets, and the law does not provide for any deductions from them for these purposes. Well, perhaps in the form of subventions from the state treasury.
The question arises: what are we dealing with in this case? With tribute, misappropriation of funds in violation of the law, or simply ignoring the will of their voters, who, as we know, voted overwhelmingly for those who spoke out against the war?
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