Due to the military invasion of the Russian Federation, martial law and general mobilization have been introduced in Ukraine. The head of the Darnitsa TCC in Kyiv, Colonel Ruslan Trihub, told in an interview with Hromadsky how the mobilization activities are going on, why there are fewer people willing to voluntarily join the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Have there been fewer volunteers in Ukraine.

Immediately after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into the territorial centers of recruitment and social support, large flows of volunteers poured in, wishing to join the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Currently, their number has significantly decreased..

“[Volunteers] come, but very few. All the queues in the territorial centers that are shown on television are the queues of people who want to get a deferral, go through a medical commission or have any other questions. About 3 out of 100 volunteers. And at the beginning of the aggression, out of every hundred, only three came for information,” Trigub said..

In his opinion, when the enemy was close, then there was greater patriotism.

“Now the enemy is a little further away, and although he is still in our state, people believe that the war is no longer with us,” he said..

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Why some volunteers are denied mobilization.

The colonel stressed that sometimes volunteers are denied operational mobilization and sent to await a mobilization order..

“We will also send volunteers, but we won’t be able to fulfill the mobilization tasks assigned to the territorial center only by volunteers, so other people are called in, handed subpoenas, verify credentials. Mobilization continues, requests are coming in, so we call on people,” he said.

Trigub noted that first of all, those men who have a certain military experience are mobilized, because they spend much less time on their training than on training conscripts from scratch..

“There is a military-trained resource - these are people who served in the army. They were taught, the state spent money on them when they served in military service (either in the police or in the Security Service). They don’t need to be retrained – they just need to be reminded of what they know,” he explained..

As a reminder, Artem Krikun-Trush, manager of PwC Legal, explained earlier whether a person liable for military service in Ukraine can refuse to receive a subpoena.