Posted on 04/18/2023 6:09:35 AM PDT by dennisw
The Russian military has begun using Moscow’s vast video surveillance system to find conscripts who evade compulsory service, Moscow’s chief draft officer Maxim Loktev told state-run news agency TASS on Tuesday.
Russia Says Surveillance System Helping to Find Draft Dodgers
“Moscow’s video surveillance systems are being used to determine a conscript’s residence,” said Loktev.
He added that workplaces and educational establishments will also provide information on those required to perform military service.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week signed a controversial law that seeks to tighten Russia’s military call-up system, replacing paper summons with electronic summons, creating a new digital database of those eligible for military service and blocking those sought for call-up from traveling abroad.
Loktev told TASS that one of the main problems for military enlistment officers was that they did not have up-to-date information for the addresses of men eligible for military service.
With the help of Moscow’s CCTV camera and face-recognition technology, he said, more accurate information on addresses could be collected.
Under Russia's the new law, which waspassed and signed at breakneck speed last week, the Russian authorities can now issue call-up papers online instead of being required to deliver them in person.
A digital database of all Russians eligible for military service is expected to launch this fall. However, Loktev said Monday that the online call-up papers will be “tested” during the ongoing spring draft.
Russian officials have previously said men conscripted for Russia’s mandatory year-long military service will not be sent to the front.
But experts warn that the bloody failure of a Russian spring offensive to achieve significant territorial gains and Kyiv’s imminent counter-offensive could mean the Kremlin is soon facing a manpower shortage in Ukraine.
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Slick Willy is glad the U.S. didn’t have that kind of tech during the Vietnam draft.
Could have used a system like that during Vietnam, so the draft dodgers would be in jail, rather than in the White House and Congress.
you’re cheering the police state?
says a lot about you
When the US draft is re-enacted the US Mexico border will become much less porous.
putin doesn’t care about the russian people
he serves his negative ego
May the russian conscripts surrender at their first opportunity
“you’re cheering the police state?”
You live in one.
LOL
still a lot freer than that oppressive Russian dictatorship
Not really dimwit...your just too dumb to realize it.
“still a lot freer than that oppressive Russian dictatorship”
Link please.
It does, doesn’t it?
you’re saying Russia is freer than Canada? LOL
now YOU’RE the really dumb one
LOL! Look who is talking.
Then I fully expect you to remove yourself from the US and flee to that bastion of rights and freedom, Russia. You talk smack, so let’s see you walk the track.
How many millions of people walk hundreds if not thousands of miles in an attempt to enter Russia, as compared to the US? If the US was so oppressive one would think the world’s teeming masses would shy away from it and head instead to Russia. But they don’t.
“How many millions of people walk hundreds if not thousands of miles in an attempt to enter Russia, as compared to the US? If the US was so oppressive one would think the world’s teeming masses would shy away from it and head instead to Russia. But they don’t.”
If Russia had the same OPEN BORDERS and WELFARE SYSTEM as the US, no doubt they’d be FLOODED with immigrants also.
Got any other great thoughts?
—> you’re saying Russia is freer than Canada? LOL
Please list any remaining Canadian freedoms not eliminated or curtailed by your Marxist government and Pedo Trudeaux
“If Russia had the same OPEN BORDERS and WELFARE SYSTEM as the US, no doubt they’d be FLOODED with immigrants also.”
Link please.
I'd say so.
https://www.independentsentinel.com/father-jailed-in-canada-for-using-incorrect-pronouns/
“Got any other great thoughts?”
Yeah, kid; I do. Russia has been suffering a population loss for years, and has tried all kinds of things to get people to migrate to Russia, but with little to no success. Face it, kid; Russia is just not high on most people’s lists as a desirable place to move to.
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