That “specially trained reservist” means men 20-40, who have been unable to avoid conscription.
Doesn’t really matter of course because Russia has no way to train or arm them and they don’t have officers to lead them and logistical capabilities to support them.
Putin has walked into a war he is losing and doesn’t know what to do, but feels he must do *something*. His options are only empty boasts so he did this.
You really should pay attention.
Here are the stated facts from the speech by Putin.
📍 Partial mobilization is announced in Russia.
📍Only those citizens who are in the reserves, as well as those who have served in the Army and possess certain military specialties and relevant experience will be subject to conscription.
📍Those called up for military service before being sent to the units will undergo additional military training.
📍All issues of material, resource and financial support for defense enterprises will be resolved by the government immediately.
📍Russia was asked to support the referendums that will decide if four Ukrainian regions will join the Russian federation; everything will be done to ensure the safe holding of this voting process.
📍The regime of repressions throughout Ukraine has been increased in the most severe way. The policy of intimidation, terror and violence is taking an increasingly barbaric form.
📍 ‘We have no moral right to hand over people close to us to be torn to pieces by the executioner, we cannot but respond to their desire to determine their own future’.
📍’The goal of the West is to weaken, divide and destroy our country. They directly said that in 1991 they were able to split the USSR, and now the time has come for the Russian Federation itself, that it should break up into many warring regions’.
📍’The Ukrainian people have been turned into cannon fodder’.
📍A new large-scale offensive in the Donbass was inevitable (as had happened twice before), and followed by an attack on the Crimea. Thus, a decision on a pre-emptive operation was absolutely necessary.
📍The LPR is almost completely cleared of neo-Nazis. Fighting in the Donetsk People’s Republic continues. Here the Kiev regime created a deep line of fortifications.
📍’In case of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal’.