In recent months, social media has seen an increasing number of reports and videos of the Ukrainian population violently resisting Ukrainian authorities who are attempting to forcibly send them to the front. These acts have a tendency to escalate into a full-blown street guerrilla war, which is currently being waged individually or by isolated groups. We are republishing a translation of part of the review prepared by the Kharkiv libertarian group "Assembly" without commentary. The full text in English can be found at this link .
"Violent actions by people without connections or money to buy their way out of the army, in response to daily state violence, have likely become the main outcome of the first six months of 2026 in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, our Kharkiv region leads the country in the number of "attacks" on employees of territorial army recruitment centers (TARCs) - 69 cases. (In the main photo, you can see one of the most epic scenes of busification in our city this spring, on Kharkiv Divisions Street; we also published a video of it). Such data was provided to the National Police by the Kyiv regional TRC as of April 12. The city of Kyiv ranked second with 53 cases, and the Dnipropetrovsk region was third with 45. A total of 620 incidents have been recorded in Ukraine, while the ground forces command reported 272 as of early January. However, collective clashes with pixelated and black-uniformed executioners in the Kharkiv region are occurring Less frequently than in the western and central regions of the country or in the city of Odessa. Therefore, official figures may be inflated, as anyone kidnapped and beaten can easily be blamed for starting a fight.The bloody silver coins for sending others to their deaths are literally a chore. And while before 2026 we could report one such case in a single investigation, now they follow one after another.
Thus, on April 2, in the very heart of Ukrainian nationalism, a joint patrol of police and a recruiting center stopped a car for inspection on Paton Street. Inside were Lviv customs officer Andriy Trush, born in 1991, and his younger brother, born in 1997. During the document check, the brother attempted to escape. Andriy stabbed one of the servicemen in the neck, allowing his brother to escape. An ambulance was called for the wounded TCC employee, 52-year-old Oleh Avdeyev, but he died in the car.
According to the Lviv Regional Military Administration, the slain senior lieutenant participated in the 1998 and 2002 Olympic Games. He was an officer in the Customs Control Center's group for reviewing and supporting administrative offenses. He did not participate in combat. The customs inspector was remanded in custody without bail.
Left: "Saint Andrew of Lvov, the Publican" (in Church Slavonic). Right: the one from whom he protected his brother.
That same day, a video emerged from Odessa showing a man with a chain engaging in a lopsided fight with four TCC employees. He smashed the window of their bus, after which the mobilizers boarded the vehicle and retreated.
On May 14, a similar incident occurred in the same coastal city: a police patrol approached three young men and demanded their identification. Two of them showed their documents, but the third, a 21-year-old man, refused to show them and fled. Police caught up with him and detained him, sparking outrage among local residents. Two more people were reportedly detained: a girl who tried to break the window of a police car and, presumably, a minor who banged on the car window with a chain. It was later discovered that 17-year-old Alexander had broken the police car window with a chain while the man who had been doused with gas was being pushed inside a bus. Media reports also suggested that he may have interceded for the girl who had been doused with gas by police. On May 19, he was released from custody on bail paid by concerned citizens and recorded a message of gratitude. He still faces up to seven years in prison.
According to local social media, his mother is Irina Svishchenko, deputy head of the Primorsky District Administration. His father, Oleksandr Svishchenko, works as a chief specialist in the department of monitoring and interaction with law enforcement agencies in the municipal security department of the Odessa City Council.
On the morning of April 6, in Kharkiv, a 56-year-old unemployed man, evading an identity check, threw two air grenades at his pursuers and returned fire with a starting pistol. When he was finally caught, he stabbed one of his pursuers in the lower abdomen and was detained for three hours. The pursuer was taken to intensive care, and the shooter was charged with intentionally causing grievous bodily harm and placed under house arrest.
Kharkiv resident Ruslan Galimzyanov explained his act of self-defense by saying that he needed to take care of his mother, who was born in 1949, and that he did not intend to use the grenades, but carried them just in case.
At a checkpoint in Oleksandrivka, Kirovohrad Oblast, TCC officers discovered a conscript violating registration rules. En route to the TCC, near the village of Podlesne, a bus carrying a conscript overtook a Mercedes-Benz, causing an accident and cutting it off. Another man exited the car and removed a can of gasoline from the trunk. He demanded the conscript's release, threatening to set the official vehicle on fire. The conscript entered the Mercedes-Benz, but 10 minutes later they were stopped by police. The Mercedes-Benz driver was questioned on suspicion of obstructing the legitimate activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The investigator petitioned the court to detain the suspect, but the court issued a different preventive order: 24-hour house arrest until June 3.
Also in central Ukraine, on the evening of March 31, in the village of Sosonka in the Vinnytsia region, approximately 100 people blocked a TCC vehicle attempting to mobilize a man. According to TCC spokesperson Myroslava Lyashuk, while the summons was being served, one of the men ran away, after which another threw a stone at the service vehicle, damaging it. She also reported that local residents then gathered, and a verbal altercation ensued, escalating into a fight. As a result, the vehicle was damaged and towed. TCC employees were removed from the scene to prevent further conflict and harm to themselves.
On April 4, in Vinnytsia itself, during an "attempted document check," a draft dodger pulled out a knife and stabbed two TCC employees. They were immediately taken to a medical facility. One was in moderate condition in intensive care. The other's condition was assessed as satisfactory.
On the evening of April 4, a fugitive soldier in the Rivne region threatened to blow up police officers. According to police, a 43-year-old resident of the village of Orzhiv pulled the pin from a grenade during an identity check and threatened to detonate it. Negotiations with the man lasted over three hours, after which he was detained. One of the two grenades ended up in the river, and the second was defused and recovered. There were no injuries.
Another deserter was detained in the region on April 30. On the evening of April 29, a group of conscripts, along with a local police officer, "saw a[Terminator?]walking with a bicycle in his hands. When they approached him to check his documents, the man opened fire with an automatic weapon at the soldier and the police officer." According to the same police report, he fired more than 20 shots: first at the ground, then at the car. According to another police press release, he was riding a bicycle, stopped near a service vehicle, pulled an object "resembling an automatic weapon" from his bag, and began shooting. In any case, the police officer and one TCC employee were injured, and the suspect was found with a weapon in the basement of an abandoned house in the village of Verba. He is Pavel Kalinin, born in 1978, a resident of the Dubna district. He was remanded in custody and faces 15 years in prison for attempted murder and desertion.
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On April 17, according to the Lviv Regional Central Communications Center, three individuals broke into the military recruitment center in Yavoriv. They allegedly attempted to attack the guards. Police officers who arrived at the scene detained two of the attackers and began searching for the third. It is unclear whether these were the conscripts inside the building or whether the evening attack occurred outside.
On April 20, near the village of Strumok in Chernivtsi Oblast, a 29-year-old bus driver stabbed two TCC employees in the neck while being transported to the base. He then damaged the windows and body of the service vehicle. While attempting to escape, he struck one of the recruitment center employees in the forearm with a wrench. After escaping, he was apprehended and taken into custody on suspicion of attempted murder (10-15 years in prison).
The kidnappers received prompt medical assistance and their lives were saved.
On April 21, in the Sinelnykivskyi district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a drunk man blew himself up at police officers, injuring five, according to the police press service. Police responded to a report of a neighbor behaving erratically. He told police he had turned on the gas and had two grenades. Police stormed the building, and the man threw two grenades. Only one exploded. Despite his injuries, the "hooligan," born in 1991, was arrested.
Another similar incident occurred on the night of June 5th in the regional center: police received a report of a fight on Lugovska Street in Dnipro. During an arrest, one of the participants in the conflict threw a grenade at them. He was instantly killed by the explosion, and four police officers were injured to varying degrees.
On April 30, in the city of Kovel in Volyn, an attempt to bus a vehicle at a construction site resulted in damage to a vehicle. "Citizens threw sticks and stones at soldiers and service vehicles. One of the men jumped on the windshield, breaking it. The rear and side windows, as well as the doors, were also damaged," reported a spokesperson for the Volyn Regional Trade and Commerce Center. According to her, two conscripts, aged 32 and 45, were supposed to be sent for medical examination but had likely been detained earlier in another area. Construction workers allowed them to escape, despite the use of tear gas.
On June 2, another video emerged from Dnipro ( https://t.me/padla_tck/30827 ) depicting a workplace conflict, although the exact date is unknown (it may not have been filmed this year). About 15 recruitment center employees and their unofficial "assistants" arrived at a plant and were met by at least two dozen male workers. A verbal altercation resulted in the visitors being forced to leave the premises. Judging by the uniform of one of the employees, the events took place at the Metinvest plant.
On April 9, in the city of Zaporizhia, patrol police stopped a car driven by a fugitive serviceman. The stop was due to his possible involvement in a traffic accident. The driver failed to produce identification and fled the scene. Patrol officers caught up with the offender. Upon seeing the officers, he attempted to flee again, but lost control and drove into a ditch. He then abandoned the car and ran, but the patrol officers caught up with him. While the driver was speaking with him, his 49-year-old father intervened. He became aggressive, threatened with an axe, threw stones at the officers, and used pepper spray. The father was placed under house arrest for threatening or using violence against a law enforcement officer, and his son was transferred to the military law enforcement service.
Also on May 4, in the city of Dnipro, a man stopped by the TCC opened fire. Three mobilizers were wounded. The shooter was immediately detained by police and identified as a local resident named Dato Vashakmadze. The man, stopped for an identity check, had violated military registration regulations and was subject to mobilization. He later told state television that one of the TCC employees allegedly tried to take his phone and asked where he "bought" the military ID he presented for the check. After this, Vashakmadze noted, several people began "beating" him. He was carrying an officially registered traumatic pistol and fired a warning shot into the ground.
"After the commotion, I ran 10 meters away and heard a police officer order me to stop. I stopped, unloaded my gun as ordered, placed it on the ground, and offered no resistance. I had no intention of injuring anyone or causing bodily harm."
According to the Odessa Regional Central Communications Service, on Tuesday, May 5, unknown individuals in two cars blocked a TCC minibus in the regional center to free men being transported for a medical examination. They smashed the windows and filled the vehicle with tear gas. Three of the detainees managed to escape. "Today's operation to free three people who had been abducted from a TCC bus in Odessa marks a completely new level of public self-defense. The military commissariat's minibus was blocked by two vehicles, the windows were smashed, and the interior was filled with tear gas. In the confusion, the abductees managed to escape. Serious retaliatory measures from the authorities are expected to prevent the harried and desperate population from repeating this experience, which could easily escalate into a street war. The location of the incident-Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street (Hospitalnaya) on the corner of Prokhorovsky (Durinsky) Lane-is particularly noteworthy. "This is one of the centers of old Moldavanka, 50 meters from Yaponchik's house. Historically, it's a compact neighborhood for the "criminal class," who have been at odds with the law under any government. "There's something unique about this place ," concluded local leftist historian Vyacheslav Azarov.
On May 10, in the village of Baibuzovka in the Odessa region, a joint patrol from the shopping center and police stopped a man who violated military registration regulations. The passerby seriously stabbed two servicemen, and medics fought to save their lives. It is unclear from the report whether he was detained.
On May 15, a resident of the Khmelnytskyi district, born in 1965, opened fire on police officers. The incident occurred in the village of Terlovka during a document check of a driver whose license had been suspended by a court for drunk driving. A police captain was killed, and his colleague was taken to the hospital in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Meanwhile, as police video footage ( https://t.me/padla_tck/30003 ) shows, a burst of automatic fire was fired from a private home. The shooter was ultimately shot and killed by a special police unit.
An armed group attacked the TCC in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odessa Oblast, Odessa journalists reported on May 18, citing sources in the prosecutor's office. According to reports, two men and a woman stormed the city hospital armed with weapons and forced TCC employees to hand over a 27-year-old man undergoing a medical examination. They were carrying a traumatic pistol and a hunting rifle. They then got into a car and fled. A manhunt was launched in the city, and one of the attackers was subsequently detained.
On May 19, a crowd blocked and damaged a TCC bus on Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street in Lviv. Video shows a police officer removing the handcuffs of a kidnapped passerby and releasing him, but attacks on the vehicle continued even after this. The regional mobilization center called this a "virtual disruption of mobilization tasks." If only something like this were happening across the country!
That same day, a video from the city of Cherkasy was published showing mobilizers driving into a courtyard but being driven out by people who smashed their car windows. Once again, the crowd saved someone's life...
On May 26, in the village of Sakhnovshchyna in the Kharkiv region, a group of local residents crashed a TCC vehicle during a clash and injured uninvited guests. They used a telescopic baton and tear gas. Four men were detained and charged: a 36-year-old, a 34-year-old, and two 29-year-olds. Here's what happened:
On May 29, near the "Dream City" residential complex in Lutsk, a man refused to show his military service documents and locked himself in his car. According to the Volyn Regional Trade and Cultural Center, a group of teenagers later intervened, attacked the military commissariats, and damaged the service car. The man's fate is unknown; local social media reports only stated that his captors broke his jaw.
A similar story occurred in the city of Khmelnytskyi on June 3: football school students and their parents went to the recruiting office demanding the release of their 56-year-old coach. Relatives also say he is caring for his 88-year-old bedridden mother and is eligible for a deferment. By evening, it was announced that the coach had been released and received a military draft notice.
The following day, in the Kamianets-Podilskyi district of the region, a TCC employee was struck "on the head with a blunt object" while checking his military service documents, resulting in him being hospitalized with a bruise and concussion. The passerby disappeared but was later detained by an investigative team at his home.
In addition to spontaneous rebels, last year the Assembly's materials featured a Kharkiv resident who attempted to conduct full-scale revolutionary propaganda. We will not disclose his name, as he did not request it. According to the court verdict of December 30, on July 11, he posted a leaflet near a supermarket bearing "symbols of the communist totalitarian regime" and a QR code linking to a Telegram group he created, "Ultra-Leftists of the Kharkiv Region/Only Practice." A criminal case was opened just two weeks later, on July 24. The verdict also states that the detainee fully admitted his guilt, sincerely repented, has no criminal record, was born in the Donetsk region, has no dependents, is not officially employed, and was not subject to preventive measures. The court sentenced him to three years in prison with a one-year suspended sentence and ordered him to find work or register as unemployed. The two confiscated mobile phones are subject to confiscation, and the notebook with drafts and six leaflets are subject to destruction.
"I know and am looking for the ultra-leftists who advocate for an independent socialist republic of Ukraine with genuine democracy and the abolition of private property (it sounds scary, but if you read this, you'll understand). Who believe that the struggle for Ukrainian or Russian oligarchs is pointless, as Marx, Lenin, and Kropotkin explained. Who are against everyone, as it should be."
Although the verdict appeared in the court registry back then, under the New Year's tree, we decided not to publish it until we received a comment from the convicted man: "Ha-ha, I was convicted for this case and had to move to another city. I was convicted for displaying prohibited symbols. I was so naive, I thought no one would even notice. But it turns out the Security Service monitors all these steps. Not everyone goes to prison, but if you break the law, they immediately open a case. I can't say much more." Nevertheless, the young man has no plans to leave Ukraine.
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The mere flight of hundreds of thousands of troops, replaced by new ones every month, does not derail the war - both the Russian ( https://assembly.org.ua/zakonchit-vojnu-snizu-den-soznatelnogo-otkazchik... ) and Ukrainian ( https://assembly.org.ua/vyshedshij-v-evropu-harkovskij-voennyi-podelilsy... ) armies already have entire regiments of deserters; this flight simply ties the hands of the states and prevents them from breaking out of the stagnant situation. A situation that has dragged on so long that one side could resort to a sharp escalation, desperately trying to achieve a decisive turn in its favor. Instead of relying on desertion rates, it would be far more useful to make it more difficult to capture new cannon fodder: in this review alone, there are a number of people whose names deserve to be regularly mentioned before the embassies of warring states, alongside the heroes of our previous reports: Igor P. from Odessa, who was shot in a shootout; Vadim Kuzub from the city of Lubny (he faces life imprisonment); Grigoriy Kedruk from Lviv; Yuriy Dmitriuk from Slavyansk... If people resorting to self-defense on the streets know that after capture they will not be left alone and their fate will attract close attention abroad, then organizing a "live safari" can become much more dangerous for those who capture them.
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