The Russian army has a big problem with front personnel in Ukraine, there are not enough people, but instead of open mobilization, they try to carry it out covertly.
On May 9, Vladimir Putin is expected to announce a general mobilization in Russia. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the losses of the Russian army in the war against Ukraine have already exceeded 27 thousand people. The Russian army did not have enough manpower, nor did the inhabitants of the LDNR immediately act directly from the streets, nor did the Syrian fighters of the PMCs, help. But instead of a general, the Kremlin decided only on covert mobilization.
Invitation to registration
Over the past few weeks, Russian military registration and enlistment offices have been bombarding men with subpoenas with invitations to “military registration.” For some, such visits end in Ukrainian captivity. Advertising for short-term contract services is becoming more intrusive. Some employers are looking for specialists to help prepare for “wartime activities”, others are trying to “book” important employees, protecting them from being sent into the trenches. until the covert mobilization becomes apparent.
Letters sent by the military registration and enlistment offices at the beginning of the war in Ukraine were labeled as carbon copies: recipients were invited to the military registration and enlistment offices for “military registration” and ” confirmation of place of residence and registration. ”
Mobilized – captured
In videos posted by the SBU on YouTube, four people identified themselves as Russian reservists and said that in the early days of April they were invited to military enlistment offices and “mobilized” there. The men say they were promised a job in the back – someone had to deal with humanitarian aid, someone – to sweep the streets and fix the rubble.
Then everything progressed quickly. One of the heroes said that the next day after visiting the military registration and enlistment office, a plane took him from Yekaterinburg to the Rostov region.
He will make sure that for 150-200 thousand rubles a month he will go to unload humanitarian aid and return houses to the self-proclaimed LNR and DNR. But instead, he, as part of a platoon of 25 men, went to the village of Zolote, not far from the town of Popasna, Lugansk region, which at that moment was attacked by Russian troops.
The platoon spent the night there. The next day, representatives of the so -called people’s militia of the LDNR ordered them to occupy the vacant trenches. As soon as the recruits did so, fire opened up on them, after which they heard the voices of Ukrainian soldiers and surrendered.
The man confirmed in the video that he was “mobilized”. But, judging by his other testimony, he was in fact a “volunteer.” He probably received a summons, came to the draft board, and there he was persuaded to enter service under contract.
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“Stability, ample opportunities for self -realization, a decent standard of living and a high social status” – all this promises young men from the Tver region a point of choice for military service if he will serve as a contract soldier.
The contract is proposed to end within three months. “Money allowance from 130,000 rubles,” the letter said. The number “1” is neatly added to the printed “30” with a pen.
Since the beginning of April, contractors to be sent to war in Ukraine have been looking for fully civilian aggregators – HeadHunter and SuperJob.
“In general, to be honest, in the military sense, everything is done in vain, but very Putin: to do something and do nothing at once,” a former soldier who took part in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. explained to the BBC the meaning of covert mobilization in 2014. He himself has already lost five acquaintances from school in the current war: “two died near Gostomel, three were tankers.”
“One of these days we will attack London, but so far we have only taken Popasnaya,” he ironically. “So far, as far as I know, it has been decided to move on our own. Although the General Staff seems to be insisted by the Security Council: we cannot cope, they say, with NATO without mobilization.
Source: korrespondent
