Following the incident at the Odesa Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center, internal investigations will be conducted at all territorial recruitment centers. Deputy Minister of Defense Mstyslav Banik announced this on Facebook, according to the Ukrainian News agency.
"Yesterday, I held an emergency meeting with the Land Forces Command regarding the incidents at the Odesa Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center. Any violence, human rights violations, or degradation of human dignity toward people—some of whom will become our defenders—is categorically unacceptable, especially in the fifth year of the war,” he said.
Banik announced that, following the meeting, internal investigations will be conducted at all military recruitment centers.
“Following the meeting, internal investigations will be conducted at all territorial recruitment centers, and we will thoroughly examine citizens’ complaints regarding unlawful detention, violence, and other unlawful actions. I called for transparent communication with the public and maximum cooperation with all law enforcement agencies,” he said.
The deputy minister emphasized that such incidents once again confirm how urgently reform of the territorial recruitment centers is needed, a reform the Ministry of Defense is currently working on.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) previously announced that SBI officers had uncovered officials at one of the district territorial recruitment centers in the Odesa Region who had illegally detained, beaten, and committed acts of sexual violence against men.
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