Around 700 mobilised men returned home from army training centre in Russia’s Yekaterinburg region, where four mobilised men previously died

Seven hundred mobilised men from an army training centre located in the Yekaterinburg region of Russia were sent home, Maxim Ivanov, the State Duma deputy from the United Russia party for the Yekaterinburg region, says.

Out of them, 300 people were deemed “wrongfully mobilised”. Ivanov notes that the centre’s servicemen are distracted from their own work and waste time on additional reviews of the mobilised men and then on sending them home, thus, doing the work of draft offices.

The deputy says that draft offices should have all the information on the people who can or cannot be mobilised from the beginning.

“Moreover, I was told that, for example, in the Perm region, people are asked in draft offices whether they have health complaints. If they do have them, the person is given a day to hand in the according documentation. However, why are there still so many mobilised people that do not fit the medical criteria? A question. We will look into it,” he wrote in a Telegram post.

Previously, four mobilised men died in the same training centre. According to the local ombudswoman Tatiana Merzlyakova, one of them had epilepsy, cause of death of two more men is still being established. Another man, according to Ivanov, died after complaining about his health getting worse. He suffered a cardiac arrest.