Overview
- The Verkhovna Rada scheduled consideration of a bill to open Territorial Recruitment Centers in villages and small towns, according to the parliament’s website.
- The draft asserts the new local offices would raise the effectiveness of recruitment operations and improve conditions for carrying out conscription tasks and social support.
- Ukraine’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets has reported widespread abuses by enlistment officials, citing cases of beatings and hazardous stops.
- Videos and posts circulating online purport to show coercive detentions by recruitment staff, though the material varies in verification and sourcing.
- Media coverage also reports manpower shortfalls and public resistance to mobilization, including evasion and protests, while the bill proceeds through the parliamentary process without an announced outcome.