Russia disguises forcible mobilization in occupied Ukraine - human rights activist Lysyansky

He spoke about this on Espreso TV.

"They have now disguised their forceful mobilization under the influence of the occupying power. They now have a system in place that if a person who has committed a crime or is suspected of a crime at the stage of bringing him or her to criminal responsibility, they are immediately forced to sign a contract. You have just been detained for a crime for the first time, brought to the investigator for the first time, and the investigator puts a contract in front of you and says: ‘Go take part in the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine’. This is now set on tracks, so to speak. But in fact, for example, there are internal checkpoints controlled by the military police of the Russian Ministry of Defense, so they stopped a car, there were two guys in the car, opened the trunk, found a grenade in the trunk, which they planted themselves, called the police, sent them away, and the next day they were forced to sign a contract in prison and sent to participate in the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine," he said. 

Pavlo Lysyansky noted that the number of representatives of Russian law enforcement agencies in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine had significantly increased. However, they do not investigate the crimes that are being committed there, namely, they are involved in forcing Ukrainians to participate in the war against their own country.

"They work not only with prisoners, but also with those under investigation, and in order to actually increase the number of those under investigation and accused of crimes, they launched this repressive machine. If you conduct such a not very deep monitoring, you will see that the number of employees of the occupier's law enforcement agencies is constantly increasing: The FSB, Rosgvardia, the military police of the Ministry of Defense, the Migration Service, and so on. They are constantly increasing the size of the occupier's security forces, and the question is why? They have brought prisoners from the Russian Federation: maniacs, rapists, serial killers, given them weapons, and they are terrorizing local population — killing, raping, and so on. And these Russian law enforcement agencies are not investigating these crimes, so the question is, what are they doing? They are trying to open cases against the local population and thus force them to take up arms and go to war against Ukraine. This is how they disguise their forceful mobilization,’ the human rights activist said.

• On August 19, it was reported that Russia in the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine held militaristic events for children in kindergartens. In particular, staged battle performances.