The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced at a meeting of the military operational headquarters that “partial mobilization” would not be carried out in the republic. This was reported in the evening newscast of ChGTRK “Grozny”, and drew attention. “Kavkaz.Realii” Kadyrov explained the decision by saying that during the war in Ukraine, Chechnya “exceeded the plan by 254%.” According to Kadyrov, 20 thousand residents of the republic took part in the invasion.

Germany is ready to accept Russians fleeing mobilization “under certain conditions,” said Interior Minister Nancy Feser in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper. “Deserters facing serious reprisals can generally obtain international protection in Germany. Anyone who courageously opposes the Putin regime and is thereby exposed to great danger can apply for political asylum,” Feser explained.

A queue at the Verkhny Lars border checkpoint. Photo: Mediazona Following Vladimir Putin’s announcement of a ‘partial mobilisation’, Russians scrambled to flee, and international airline tickets quickly sold out, so people gathered in long queues at land borders.

The government adopted a resolution requiring employers to maintain employment contracts with mobilized Russians. According to the document, employment contracts will have to be suspended for a time so that later citizens called up to fight in the war with Ukraine can return to their previous jobs. “The decision was made to ensure social and labor guarantees for citizens. It applies to legal relations arising from September 21, 2022,” the government website says.

The queue at the Verkhny Lars checkpoint. Photo: Mediazone After Vladimir Putin announced the “partial mobilization”, the Russians sold flights to all available international flights, and many hours of queues lined up on the ground boundaries. Mediazona spoke with Astrakhan, who yesterday sat in a minibus to the Tbilisi bus station "Didube", at four in the morning arrived at and only at eight in the evening was in Georgia.

Military tickets in the hands of conscripts. Photo: Vladimir Smirnov / TASS In the very first days, “partial mobilization” in Russia turned into the fact that men, especially in the regions, as if without a special analysis, are driven into the military enlistment offices and military training camps. Some have already found themselves in military units from where they risk getting into Ukraine.

Former editors of DOXA magazine Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natasha Tyshkevich were put on the federal wanted list. “Mediazona” noticed them in the department’s search database. In April, a court in Moscow sentenced four former editors and editors of the student magazine DOXA - Gutnikova, Metelkin, Tyshkevich, as well as Armen Aramyan - to 2 years of correctional labor in the case of involving teenagers in rallies (points “a”, “c” of part 2 of the article 151.2 of the Criminal Code).

There is no consensus among the Russian army command on how best to counter the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive, since Russia finds itself on the defensive in both the south and east of Ukraine. about this writes CNN , citing American intelligence data. According to the publication, Western intelligence records disputes between Russian officers, as well as their complaints to relatives about decisions made in Moscow.

Alexandra Barabash. Photo: Telegram channel "Paper: all about St. Petersburg" On September 21, rallies were held throughout Russia against the “partial mobilization” announced by Vladimir Putin. The security forces brutally crushed protests. According to OVD-Info, more than 1300 people were detained, there are beaten.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Novosibirsk found errors in the case of “fake news” about the army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) against the ex-chairwoman of the local Teachers’ Alliance Irina Tolmacheva and returned it to the prosecutor’s office. The girl’s lawyer, Elena Chirkina, told OVD-Info about this. Tolmacheva is a pedagogical psychologist at school No. 206 in the Oktyabrsky district of Novosibirsk.

Military Commissariat of the Oktyabrsky District of the city of Ulan-Ude of the Republic of Buryatia. Photo: Yandex.Mat The 49-year-old head of the security agency from Ulan-Ude, employees of the military commissariat of the Oktyabrsky district brought the agenda the day before late in the evening, at six in the morning the man was in the military registration and enlistment office, and by ten in the morning he and other mobilized units of Ulan-Ude were brought to one of the military units.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a bottle of fuel was thrown into the window of a military commissariat in the village of Kyra near the border with Mongolia at night, but there was no fire. This was reported by local publications ZabNews and Chita.ru , citing sources. “According to one [source], the mixture flooded some papers, according to the second, the window glass was not even damaged by the throw,” writes Chita.ru .

The mosque "Heart of Chechnya" in Grozny. Photo: Elena Afonina / TASS In Grozny, several dozen women tried to hold a rally against mobilization. The action did not take place: they were all detained. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov reacted to the protest. He called the Chechen to the “enemies of the people” who went to Square and suggested sending their relatives to the war.

Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov called material the Novaya Gazeta a lie. Europe” that a secret clause of Putin’s decree will allow the mobilization of up to a million people. about this . Peskov told RIA Novosti “This is a lie,” his comment is quoted in the telegram channel of information agency journalists from the Kremlin pool. When the decree on mobilization was published, the seventh paragraph was hidden under the heading “for official use.” "New Newspaper.

The seventh paragraph of Vladimir Putin’s decree on “partial mobilization,” which was omitted during publication, stated that the Ministry of Defense could call up to one million people to participate in the war. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta. Europe" with reference to a source in the presidential administration. “The figure was corrected several times, and in the end, they settled on a million,” the newspaper quotes the words of its interlocutor.