Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support

[2][3][4] According to Ukrainian resolution "On the approval of the Regulation on territorial centers of recruitment and social support", local TCCs are formed, liquidated, reorganized by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Territorial centers of recruitment and social support of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Kyiv, Sevastopol, and Ukrainian oblasts are legal entities under public law, with each having independent balance sheets registration accounts in the Treasury authorities.

[5] In order to ensure the fulfillment of the tasks and specified functions of each TCC, structural subdivisions (departments, branches, groups, services) are formed within them.

Each TCC conducts activities in accordance to the provisions with each structural division, which is approved the head of the district territorial center of recruitment and social support.

[25][26] Territorial recruitment and social support centers have come under considerable criticism from the Ukrainian public and human rights activists for illegal detentions, corruption, and errors in documentation.

[28] Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets condemned the actions of TCC employees who detained citizens or demanded documents from them in the middle of the street.

[34] December 22, 2024, according to the People's Deputy of Ukraine Artem Dmytruk, the father of a forcibly mobilized young man whom he tried to save was killed in the Odessa TCC.

[38] January 4, 2025, in Zaporizhzhia, those who were forcibly mobilized barricaded themselves in the basement of the TCC, not wanting to be sent to the training ground, and military commissars began to gas them.

[39] On January 6, 2025, as a result of a parliamentary inquiry by Olexandr Fedienko [uk], it became known that the TCCs were ignoring the reservation of workers at critically important enterprises and were forcibly mobilizing them - while it was already becoming impossible to demobilize them.

[40] There are constant cases when TCC employees forcibly mobilize people, kidnapping them on the street, and not leaving them with the opportunity to take care of their pets.

[45][46] According to the statement of the people's deputy of Ukraine Serhiy Yevtushok [uk], in Rivne Oblast, TCC vehicles jam communications with electronic warfare.

[49] On February 8, 2025, on the Zhitomir-Kyiv highway, near the capital, they found a beaten physics teacher from Lviv University with a fractured skull base, as it turned out, kidnapped the day before by the TCC military.

[55] On the same day in Mykolaiv, a woman approached a group of TCC employees with a bag, after which an explosion occurred, resulting in deaths and injuries.