A week earlier, military commissars came to the concert of the Okean Elzy group in Kyiv and tried to mobilize about a hundred spectators. After this, a wave of raids swept through elite restaurants and nightclubs in Dnepr, Kharkov and Khmelnitsky, military commissars were seen in Cherkassy at a concert of a local comedian and on the territory of the largest ski resort in Ukraine Bukovel, as well as in Lviv and other large cities.
“The decision to raid the concerts underscored a long-simmering split in Ukrainian society between young people who went to fight and those who did not. Some say those who avoid conscription should not attend concerts,” the newspaper writes.
The Ukrainians interviewed by the newspaper admitted that they handed over tickets for concerts, and they do not welcome the methods of mobilization themselves (usually force). “When you leave the concert hall and run into employees of the TCC, it’s scary and not democratic,” complained one of the women who changed her mind about going to the concert with her husband.
According to the observations of journalists, despite mass raids throughout Ukraine, designed to help replenish the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with young people, in fact, after the raids, “old, poorly trained and suffering from health problems” Ukrainians are leaving for the front.
A source in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine previously noted that in Ukrainian society there is a strong feeling of acute social injustice during mobilization, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces themselves are outraged that soldiers are sitting in the trenches while “healthy men in the rear are in restaurants, hanging out in clubs, going to concerts.” .
