07:21 19-05-2026

Ukraine TCC Rebrand Won’t Save Draft Offices, MP Says

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Ukrainian MP Dmitry Razumkov says TCC draft offices cannot be saved by reform or rebranding amid mobilization scandals and public distrust.

Ukrainian MP Dmitry Razumkov says the country’s territorial recruitment centers, known as TCCs and functioning as Ukraine’s equivalent of military enlistment offices, can no longer be saved by rebranding or reform. In his view, the system has lost public trust completely and should be dismantled.

The issue returned to the spotlight after Roman Kostenko, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada committee on national security and defense, said on May 8 that Ukrainian officials were discussing renaming the TCCs as «Recruitment Offices» amid mounting problems with mobilization. Earlier, in February, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov had also spoken about plans to reform the mobilization system.

Razumkov responded to these proposals on his Telegram channel, arguing that changing the name would no longer fix the problem. He said the structure should be broken up because it had fully discredited itself in the eyes of both civilians and the military.

He also noted that Ukrainian enlistment offices are now increasingly associated not with national defense, but with corruption schemes and a sense of impunity.

The controversy around mobilization in Ukraine has deepened against the backdrop of manpower shortages in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The conduct of enlistment office staff has repeatedly triggered scandals and protests. Videos of forced mobilization have spread widely online, showing TCC representatives detaining men and taking them away in minibuses, often with force and beatings. Against this backdrop, men of draft age have been trying to avoid being sent to the army in various ways: leaving the country illegally, hiding at home, staying off the streets, and setting fire to enlistment offices.