TCC* (Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center) — a Ukrainian military authority responsible for maintaining military records and mobilizing the population.
*we intentionally use an abbreviation that is not officially correct, but phonetically matches the Ukrainian one.
Forced mobilization — should not be confused with standard mobilization carried out in accordance with Ukrainian legislation. Forced mobilization is essentially abduction (within the meaning of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance). It refers to situations where men are detained on the street without a court order or legal grounds, brought to military enlistment offices, often held in basements, have their freedom restricted (including with handcuffs), forced to undergo a medical examination, and sent to training centers.
“Busification” (from English "bus") — an ironic neologism used to describe situations where, during forced mobilization, TCC and law enforcement officers forcibly load men into buses and take them to military enlistment offices.
Negative achievement: "Busification" became the word of the year in 2024 according to the “Myslovo” neologisms dictionary.
Lawyer Kravets explains the concept of busification from the perspective of the Law and Constitution, and how mobilization should legally take place.
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets stated that he is ready to present his detailed report to the parliament: “Based on numerous appeals to the Ombudsman’s Office, I can clearly state: violations of human rights by TCC and SSP employees have become systematic and widespread. It seems that unlawful detentions and beatings by TCC and SSP staff have become a new viral trend, which cannot be stopped without a strong state response.”
Member of Parliament Oleksandr Honcharenko, stated from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada that Zelensky needs medical help if he does not see the problem of "busification".
Ihor Lutsenko, a soldier and former MP, said that "busification" is a national humiliation.
Oleksandr Fediyenko, member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, already in December reported that TCC and SSP employees began forcibly mobilizing people who carry documents confirming their exemption from mobilization. According to him, many such cases have been documented, and these actions are illegal.
MP Bakumov called the TCC officers in balaclavas an organized criminal group and urged Parliament to stop the illegal filtration measures conducted by the TCC in Kharkiv.
According to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, enforced disappearance is defined as arrest, detention, abduction, or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, placing such a person outside the protection of the law.
The Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets (mentioned above) documents violations of the law by TCC personnel: “Deprivation of the right to legal defense. TCC and SSP staff do not allow lawyers access to detained individuals, preventing them from exercising their legal rights. Concealing information about detained citizens. Relatives and human rights defenders cannot obtain information about the location of detainees, which is a direct human rights violation. Blocking representatives of the Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. Their inability to oversee detainees rights obstructs effective protection of citizens.”
Many relatives of those forcibly mobilized claim they are not informed about the whereabouts of their loved ones, and the police do not respond. The TCC uses signal jammers in their vehicles so people cannot contact their relatives or lawyers to report what happened or where they are.
From this, we can confidently state that busification is nothing more than enforced disappearance, i.e., abduction of people.
Paragraph 2 of Article 1 of this Convention states: “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance.” In other words, forced mobilization — read: abduction of people — cannot be justified by martial law.
A written response from the head of the Odesa TCC stating that TCCs do not have the right to detain people.
Due to the unjustified blocking of consular services and the effective lottery when applying for a new passport outside of Ukraine, Ukrainian men are deprived of the ability to return to Ukraine for these services, since there is a high risk of being abducted immediately upon return.
The restriction of consular services is a form of coercion: men are faced with a choice — return to Ukraine and risk forced mobilization or remain abroad without valid documents. This severely limits their freedom of movement, legal residency, and access to legal protection.
Busification videos from open sources
Even if some of the videos are fake, there are so many and new ones appear daily from various regions of Ukraine that it cannot be explained by fakes alone.
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