“Busification” is an ironic neologism that emerged in the Ukrainian information space during the general mobilization in connection with the Russian invasion and is used to refer to situations where representatives of the MCC and law enforcement agencies forcibly load men of military age on a bus on the street and take them to a recruitment center.

According to TSN, in the first nine months of 2024, Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets received more than 1,500 appeals from Ukrainians about violations of their rights by MCC employees.

According to Solomiya Bobrovska, MP from the Voice party and member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, due to the problem of “busification,” which was particularly acute in Zakarpattia, Odesa, and Chernivtsi regions, where it has become a systemic phenomenon, in May 2024, the parliament concluded an agreement with the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense to increase their powers and obligations of local authorities in exchange for the cessation of the use of force during mobilization. The military authorities, according to the MP, violated the agreement, and the prosecution of the heads of the TCC and JV is of a single nature.

According to the military man and former MP Ihor Lutsenko, one should not confuse “busification” with forced mobilization, which was in all countries during total wars. Forced mobilization implies that the state counts on specialists in a certain field. However, when a person is randomly grabbed on the street, it means that the perpetrators are only interested in reporting."

According to military officer and former Lviv City Council member Ihor Sholtis, the state must use its monopoly on force and thus involve people in the army if they refuse to do so voluntarily, as human resources are needed to operate the means and develop. The negative effect of this is that people without motivation end up in the Defense Forces.

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