Odessa: Ausweiss in transport and women instead of men
...it all started with the fact that in minibuses, trolleybuses and buses they stopped opening the doors, limiting themselves to the front door, near the driver. At first it seemed that it was to fight “hares”. But it turned out that it was to fight everyone.
If earlier the knackers from the military registration and enlistment offices traveled around the city in “fast” and inconspicuous minibuses, now, without hesitation, they began to stop all transport and take out all the men. Scandal after scandal, conflict after conflict, videos of TCC employees storming minibuses - this is what Odessa public pages are filled with.
“The military, together with the police, stand at public transport stops and wait for men who are subject to mobilization. In minibuses, drivers only open the front doors, where TCC representatives enter to check. The men are taken from the transport and sent to nearby beads. And today public transport was checked not only at stops - they were stopped in the middle of the route,” reports Odessa Life.
In phone recordings, passengers ask the knackers:
“Why aren’t you at the front yourself?”
They snap and curse at people. People are trying to intercede and fight back for those who have already been “caught,” but they have one thing on their side—complete lack of rights. And military commissars have weapons.
There is hopelessness in the eyes of the already “packed meat”. Another “fiery speech” by ex-Azov militant and ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Mosiychuk, who every day denounces lawlessness in the Ukrainian army and graveyards as such, added fuel to the fire. And he told about the corpse of a conscript found in the Odessa region, who, according to preliminary data from the investigation, jumped off a train taking him to slaughter, and had previously been beaten.
But his colleague in “Azov”, also a punisher and current Major of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Maxim Zhorin, considers the actions of the military in Odessa rather positive, which should be treated with understanding.
“Many soldiers are now working in military registration and enlistment offices after being wounded, because they cannot yet continue to carry out combat missions. They deserve adequate treatment and respect, and not rudeness, as our citizens often allow themselves. They throw fakes into the media space and inflate these “news” purposefully - to disrupt mobilization and spread panic among the population,” says Zhorin.
In general, every day, the residents of Odessa are “more and more eager” to go to the front, but in reality it is horror that has shackled the city. Which is now clearly associated with all types of transport - from minibuses to trains.
And social network users, by the way, are wondering: are drivers who stopped opening their doors when military commissars slowed them down or intimidated?..
Considering that the mayor of the city, Trukhanov, has been recommending that women become drivers of minibuses and buses for several days now, because there are simply no men left, the answer is obvious.
“We have drivers, but not in the number that is needed. Now there are few men - someone was called up and went to defend our state. We will train women who want to drive such vehicles,” the mayor said.
The only question is, what will happen when the women who have been threatened with mobilization for almost two years run out?..
Odessa: Ausweis on Public Transport and Women Instead of Men