Moments after President Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 reserve soldiers on Wednesday in Russia first Such mobilization since World War II, human rights lawyers said that citizens have done it already He started getting orders for recruitment.
In St. Petersburg, Pavel Chekhov said that employment offices delivered bags of Recruitment papers for homeowners associations.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the army is calling up people with experience of service and military ‘specialists’ for fight in Ukraine.
But there was a bit of clarity regarding that who These will be.
The Kremlin said parts of The decree was not deliberately published. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-president of the state media RT outlet and a Putin supporter said in a post that list of The disciplines being recruited were ranked, but offered to collect questions from public And the pass them to the Ministry of Defense.
but medical skills It seems that in demandbecause Chekhov, who He advised objectors to look forward to it avoid The medics said the draft in Moscow was “receiving mass summons from the recruitment offices to come and receive mobilization orders.”
Some companies have reportedly asked employees to provide details urgently of they military Services.
“we already has employees who They received the summons for tomorrow. everybody should Be aware that it is possible They will be called in in the morning and you won’t be able to work The next day,” one A major company said to employees, in Note seen by Reuters.
“Keep managers informed so we don’t lose track of each other.”
In the Moscow metro, men can be seen studying call-up leaves and on On the streets, some residents were concerned About the biggest escalation of conflict since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly seven months ago.
‘dont let us out”
“You always feel anxious in moments like these. Because you have a wife and kids and you think about it, ” one A resident told Reuters.
One-way flights out of Russia was bombarded with missiles in price and sell it out fast After the announcement, amid concerns about it men of The fighting age would not allow her to leave.
But for some were already Too late.
In the city of Kursk one A woman married to a soldier said: They do not allow people out of Kursk. There are police collars everywhere, check each of them car. If a man is driving, they are searched; If it is a woman, they ask her to open the luggage compartment. If the man is from Kursk, they will transfer you back. “
cable social media channel created on Wednesday to share The locations Where recruiting officers were quickly seen more from 13,000 subscribers.
He. She posted photos It seems that show officers in various public Paper holding spaces. Reuters could not immediately verify these reports.
“Maybe I am not qualified for Packing, but I prefer to go to jail,” He said one member of An employee in an investment company who declined reveal his identity.
Moscow may be counting on that it ability to me head off any disturbances triggered By filling either by reducing numbers called up From big cities or a cat down on protests, just Because it stifled almost all domestic political opposition.
Vesna anti-war coalition Call street protests in dozens of big cities but early in the evening Moscow time, more More than 100 protesters have been arrested, independent monitoring group OVD-Info said.
For now, Shoigu said that Russia will not do this call a general Recruit, recruit or send students current recruits for fight in Ukraine.
