Mistakes made in enlistment in the Russian region send thousands of recruits home
10/03/2022 1:02 pm
The Kremlin specifies the number of recruits and the regions must implement them. The result is that men are called up for military service, sometimes indiscriminately – whether they meet the requirements or not. Thousands of recruits can now return home to a region. But the problems don’t stop there.
According to official information, more and more reservists are returning to their families after Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin also criticized mistakes in the partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine. In the Khabarovsk region of Russia’s far east, Governor Mikhail Degtyaryov said that of “several thousands” of recruits, half have returned. Therefore, they were confiscated even though they did not meet the criteria.
The head of the military replacement district office was fired, wrote Degtyaryov on the Telegram news channel. The governor did not explain how the errors could have happened. At least 300,000 reservists must be called up across the country to hold the fort in the occupied Ukrainian territories after numerous Russian army defeats.
For British intelligence assessment However, Russia also faces considerable problems among those who are recruited under the rules. Conscripted reservists therefore temporarily gathered in camps, according to the British Ministry of Defence’s small daily report. This indicates that the military is having trouble training recruits and finding officers to lead new units. Numerous videos surfaced on social media of Russian recruits camped out in open spaces awaiting combat training. They report that they were told to wait a few days.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled abroad to avoid recruitment by Russian authorities. The mobilization, which was rejected by much of the population, triggered the biggest anti-war protests in months. There were also arson attacks on recruitment offices.
The Russian president himself said last week that all errors in the call-up of reservists must be “corrected”. For days now, reservists have complained that they are being called up for military service despite fatal chronic illnesses, advanced age or other exclusion criteria. Putin said anyone who was sent to the front by mistake must return home. This also applies to parents of large families. The Kremlin chief asked the Attorney General’s Office to pursue the violators of the mobilization.