
Today is the third day of mobilization in Russia. It was declared by Decree of President Vladimir Putin on September 21 in connection with the situation at the front in Ukraine. Mobilization is called partial in the decree, however, the document provides the Ministry of Defense with very broad powers - in fact, any military service, except for deferrals by law, can be called up.
The explanations of the Ministry of Defense say that the soldiers of the reserve up to 35 years and junior officers up to 50, who have a demanded military-study specialty, will be called to be called up. Of the regions, however, there are reports that the summons are received by people older than the designated age and those who did not serve earlier in the army.
The number of people who will be called up is also unclear. Putin’s decree has a closed point No. 7. According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, it refers to the number of mobilized ones. A source of Novaya Gazeta. Europe in the presidential administration claimed that up to a million people could be drafted into the army in the seventh paragraph. In the Kremlin, this is denied. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called the figure 300 thousand.
On September 23, the military commissar of the Irkutsk region, Yevgeny Fuzhenko , said that citizens limited to military service are also subject to mobilization, "but they will be called last." According to him, doctors, including women, and graduates of military departments, can also be called.
Representatives of a number of industries insist that their employees receive reservation from mobilization. In particular, in the Irkutsk region, in Kamchatka and in Magadan, dozens of air traffic controllers received summons and mobilization orders for military service. In the Federal Trade Union of the airplane, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was asked to free them from participating in the war. A letter from the trade union was published by the Telecramal channel "Aviatorshchina".
According to Kommersant , employees of at least five Russian airlines, including Aeroflot groups, and more than ten airports received summons at the military registration and enlistment office within a day after the announcement of mobilization. According to sources in three companies, 50-80% of employees, including pilots, can potentially mobilize. Airlines are allegedly compiled by reservation lists for employees.
According to Putin’s decree, how many people will be called from each region, determines the Ministry of Defense. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov the day before said that mobilization would not be carried out in the republic. He explained this by the fact that during the war in Ukraine the republic "exceeded the plan." Participation in hostilities during the war was accepted by 20 thousand people, Kadyrov said. Chechnya exceeded the “lowered plan” by 254%, he said. What plan we are talking about, who and how it was approved, was not specified.
State Duma deputies by law have a reservation from mobilization. The head of the Executive Committee of United Russia Andrei Turchak said that 4 deputies still asked for the front, among them, known to homophobic shares, Vitaly Milonov. The question of their appeal, as Turchak said, will decide the Ministry of Defense.
Departure from Russia for potentially subject to mobilization is currently not limited. Men of draft age at airports ask additional questions, however, according to the testimony, they are missed on flights. Tickets to visa -free countries sharply rose or ended at all in the coming days. It is also reported about traffic jams at automobile checkpoints at the entrance to Finland, Georgia, as well as Kazakhstan. Belarusian law enforcement officers were instructed to monitor Russian citizens who came to the country to avoid mobilization. This was reported by "Our Niva" with reference to sources in the law enforcement system.
The authorities of Kazakhstan recognized the increase in the flow of Russian citizens at the entrance to the country and said that they are registering the movement of all Russians in the country and so far do not see threats of stability. The Governor of the Omsk Region border with Kazakhstan, Alexander Burkov, made the appeal in connection with the mobilization: “Those who are looking for options to wait out or serve abroad, I want to ask for a think of. I can’t even imagine that in 1941, Soviet people began to flee the country - leave women, children and helpless old people. If they did this, it would not be our great great Countries and us! "
On September 21, spontaneous protests against mobilization were held in a number of cities. More than 1000 people were detained. Some, as reported, handed the summons right in the police department. According to the Caucasus. Reals , in the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria, local residents gathered for a spontaneous rally against mobilization-according to the published telegram channel Astra videos , several dozen people gathered in the square in front of the administration. It was also reported about protest performances in Dagestan.
Mobilization in Russia was announced for the third time in recent history - before that it was declared at the very beginning of the first and Second World Wars.
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