Sinister raids by draftsmen have begun in Moscow and St. Petersburg, despite Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his military mobilization is coming to an end and that he plans no more conscriptions.
At a press conference in the Kazakh capital of Astana, Putin said that the “partial mobilization” he announced last month, which the defense minister said was aimed at recruiting 300,000 troops, was complete and would be over within two weeks.
“Nothing else is planned. No proposals have been received from the Ministry of Defense and I do not see any additional need in the foreseeable future,” Putin said of his ongoing mobilization.
“Now 222,000 people out of 300,000 have been mobilized. All mobilization activities will be completed within approximately two weeks.’
The announcement comes as police and draft officers were spotted on street corners and near apartment blocks.
Armed recruiters have even visited offices looking for men to mobilize, and in some cases recruiting teams are reportedly using facial recognition cameras to catch dodges.
“They act like dog catchers. It’s disgusting how they’re hauling away men for cannon fodder,” said one commenter.
Sinister draftsmen with draft papers have searched homes and offices looking for men who might forcibly enlist in Vladimir Putin’s army
And armed recruiters have even driven through offices looking for men to mobilize, and in some cases recruiting teams are reportedly using facial recognition cameras to catch dodges
Russian recruits gather September 26 at a military recruitment center in Bataysk in southern Russia’s Rostov-on-Don region
Men rounded up by Putin’s draftees in Moscow and St. Petersburg for war mobilization
In the Polyustrovo Park residential complex in St. Petersburg, men of mobilization age were trapped near the entrance for the delivery of summonses.
In Moscow there was a mass delivery of subpoenas to metro stations, Ostorozhno News reported.
Witnesses said police officers questioned men, took their personal details and then served subpoenas on some of them. Some people are taken to police cars.
Pavel Chikov, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist, warned of “increasing reports of crackdowns.”
“There are cases where summonses are served on the street, citizens are arrested by police in the subway and hotels and forcibly extradited to military stations or mobilization sites.”
He stated, “This practice is illegal.”
Senator Andrey Klishas – of the pro-Putin party United Russia – has called for a review of whether it’s legal to take men off the subway and force them into war.
Authorities use police, traffic police, FSB security and residential databases to track down potential fare evaders.
They also raid offices to exterminate mobilization-age males, despite promises to the Russians that one percent of the male population would be sent to Putin’s war.
“Police officers walk around the floors taking away men of military age,” a source told The Village’s online media.
“In the morning there was a rice cart, it was full. A second was brought. They took our steward and other men who were on the first floor. [Men] get trapped in the corridor.
Putin said in Astana that the “partial mobilization” he announced last month, which the defense minister said was aimed at recruiting 300,000 troops, has been completed and will be over within two weeks
Russian recruits take a bus near a military recruiting center in Krasnodar, Russia, Sunday, September 25
Russian recruits gather September 29 at a train station in Prudboi in the Volgograd region of Russia to board a train
“Specifically, three police officers came to our reception.”
Reservists are vulnerable to mobilization to the lower ranks until the age of 35; Junior officers may be drafted up to the age of 50 and senior officers may be drafted up to the age of 55.
The raids on conscripts appear to refute claims in Russia that the first wave of mobilizations is over and a second wave has not begun.
The sinister draftees arrive when a vacation flight in Russia was delayed nine hours because the co-pilot had moved in.
The unnamed pilot was not allowed to travel abroad, although passengers were on board and ready to fly to Antalya, Turkey.
The vacationers on the AzurAir flight were told: “Due to the mobilization and the subsequent border crossing ban for the co-pilot, the take-off has been cancelled.
“We ask you to get off the plane.”
The flight left the Ural oil town of Ufa about nine hours later after a replacement co-pilot was found.
“Everyone was shocked,” said passenger Vadim.
“It was crazy, the military service came because of the co-pilot. We were due to depart at 5:20am but didn’t leave until 2pm.
“First we waited two hours, then we were all sent to hotels.”
Officials apparently blamed the plane nightmare on the co-pilot, who ignored an initial summons to fight in Putin’s bloody war in Ukraine.
That is why he was forbidden to leave Russia, it said.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has increased the number of his strategic nuclear bombers stationed at an airbase near the Finnish and Norwegian borders, satellite images show.
The move comes amid high tensions over whether Putin plans to launch a nuclear attack in Europe and his ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which has suffered a series of embarrassing setbacks in recent months.
The Russian tyrant has gradually increased the number of strategic bombers at Olenya Air Base – from none on August 12 to four supersonic Tu-160s on August 21 to now 11.
According to reports, Vladimir Putin has again reinforced his strategic nuclear bombers at an airbase near the Finnish and Norwegian borders. Pictured: A satellite image acquired on October 7, 2022 shows seven Tu-160 strategic bombers (marked red) and four Tu-95 aircraft (marked yellow) at Olenya Air Force Base in Russia’s Kola Peninsula
Pictured: The runway at Olenya Air Force Base on the Kola Peninsula is seen empty on August 12, 2022
Pictured: Four Tu-160 “Blackjacks” surfaced around August 21 at Olenya Air Force Base by Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat Intl
Pictured: the four Tu-160 “Blackjacks” (at the base since August 21) were joined by three Tu-95 “Bears” by September 25.
The Armageddon aircraft are normally based at Engels Air Base, 450 miles southeast of Moscow.
Now, however, the bombers are based about 185 kilometers from the border of NATO member Norway and about 95 kilometers from soon-to-be ally Finland.
They can also be used with conventional weapons.
There is evidence that the deployment in Olanya has Kh-101 cruise missiles for possible use against targets in Ukraine.
The Kh-101 can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
The runway at Olenya Air Force Base was empty on August 12, and satellite images from October 7 show it is now full of fighter jets.