In the Odessa region of Ukraine, 100 evaders who planned to flee the country were detained. This was reported on June 25 by the Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation (GBR).

«In the Odessa region, the GBR prevented an attempt to smuggle a hundred evaders across the state border. Employees of the GBR, in cooperation with the SBU and the State Border Service, exposed a group in the Odessa region that organized a large—scale scheme for the illegal transfer of persons,» the Telegram channel of the department says.

It is noted that the group also included a law enforcement officer who gave advice to drivers on how to avoid checkpoints on the way to the border. The organizers charged from $5 to $18 thousand for their services, and they planned to earn $1 million for a party of 100 people.

At the moment, the members of the group have been detained and taken into custody. The evaders were taken to the shopping mall.

Earlier, on June 23, Igor Matviychuk, head of the border control department of the Ukrainian Border Guard Service, said that every day more than a hundred people of military age try to illegally cross the state border of Ukraine and enter European countries. According to him, border guards detain most of the evaders. For violators, punishment is provided only in the form of a fine, and the organizers of illegal schemes to leave the country are criminally liable.

Before that, on June 21, it was reported that in Ukraine, citizens do not leave their homes for fear of being mobilized. One of them, Vladislav, a 45-year-old from Kiev, stopped going to the city center to avoid checking documents. After that, he stopped going to the gym because of the patrols on duty in his area.

On June 18, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said that Kiev could reduce the age of mobilization to 18 years in order to increase the number of Armed Forces. According to him, the country’s president, Vladimir Zelensky, whose term of office expired on May 20, has doubled conscription due to the new law, since people have nowhere to hide.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, whose powers ended on May 20, signed a law on tightening mobilization on April 16.