Posted on 10/14/2022 7:16:30 AM PDT by Salohcin
Russian military recruiters appear to be employing new and increasingly desperate methods to round up men for the Kremlin’s "partial" mobilization drive.
Military and law enforcement officials in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Friday were seen inspecting the identity papers of passers-by around the entrance to metro stations and handing out draft notices to eligible men in the hallways of apartment buildings, according to local media and eyewitness accounts.
In St. Petersburg officials holding stacks of draft papers were apprehending people inside an apartment complex in the city’s northern Kalininsky district from 7:30 a.m., according to a video posted by one resident.
The reports were later confirmed by local authorities who said that both the police and Defense Ministry employees were being dispatched in teams created to "inform citizens about the need to report" to enlistment offices, according to information obtained by RBC Daily.
"Given that…[some] residents of the Kalininsky district who received the call-up papers in person didn’t come to the draft office…they were issued the papers again," a representative of the St. Petersburg city administration was quoted as saying by RBC Daily.
But higher-ranking Russian officials were quick to denounce the use of such methods to bolster the number of recruits to the Russian military.
Kirill Kabanov, a member of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council, said he had received a complaint about the "illegal" actions of the authorities in Moscow and called on the head of the council to file a complaint to the Russian prosecutor's office.
"These actions do more harm than Ukrainian propaganda…it is hard to even imagine the moral and socio-political consequences of such actions," Kabanov wrote on Telegram.
Kabanov’s concerns were also echoed by Andrey Klishas, a member of Russia's Federation Council, who said that such actions and those who ordered them should be subject to "legal assessment."
They’re already getting slaughtered in Ukraine.
When AREN’T commie libs “outraged”? This isn’t news.
It seems like Russia doesn’t want to win, but just to propagate the war.
They haven’t mobilized their full time military which one would do if they want to end it.
It seems like the west is being played to me.
I don’t know the endgame, just that this situation seems odd.
How long before they learn about “Fragging”?
The Union has similar issues during the US Civil War, but they won anyway.
Related; this is a free link:
With the introduction of Impressment and Press Gangs, the Royal Navy is living rent free in Putin’s mind.
“How long before they learn about “Fragging”?”
Russian Conscripts Killed Commander And Handed Arms To AFU:
https://charter97.org/en/news/2022/10/13/519719/
Did the US paid ISIS and Alqada forces arrive yet? Just wondering how that tastes to everyone? After all, McCaine and Graham set them up in SIRIA.
Hardly.
But I do know how conscripts and people are generally being rounded up an forced to fight by Ukraine are doing as they are being “slaughtered in Ukraine” as cannon fodder.....
““Ukrainian Reserves at Artyomovsk (Bakhmut)
THE RESERVES THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES HAS RUSHED TO BAKHMUT TURNED OUT TO BE SO FRESH THAT THEY HAD TO BE TRAINED “ON THE FLY.” An improvised base and firing range was set up at a fishing pier near Stake 8 (in the village of Khromovo), on the south-western outskirts of Artemovsk. The level of preparedness of the enemy reinforcements leaves much to be desired.”
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/14098
Putin is on the decline. He has surrounded himself with yes men his entire life and he only lately realized how he was betrayed by lies and corruption within.
He did want to win, expected to be celebrating last May Day. Now he is trying to hide his anger and frustration at the incompetence on display. If he admits it he is done. Eventually he is done in either case.
“The Union has similar issues during the US Civil War, but they won anyway.”
I haven’t thought much about the Civil War, but it is an interesting comparison.
The Confederacy lost after early successes because they could get only about 1 million men under arms while the Union had 2.7 million. Largely because the CSA had a population of only 5.5 million people it could recruit from.
That is also Russia’s path to victory. The problem is they would need to mobilize some 10 million soldiers. Can the Putin regime survive such an effort?
“Putin is on the decline. He has surrounded himself with yes men his entire life and he only lately realized how he was betrayed by lies and corruption within.”
Who, unlike comedian and clueless, ever-begging Zelesnkyyidiot, has surrounded himself with neo-Nazi Banderists and literally bankrupted his country via corruption, etc.......
Or maybe it has, and most of is it dead on the field in Ukraine?
“Ukrainian Reserves at Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) The level of preparedness of the enemy reinforcements leaves much to be desired.”
So even against a bunch of green recruits the Russians have failed to take Bakhmut? What does that say about the quality of the Russian forces.
Meanwhile a bunch of Ukrainian farm boys liberated Izyum in 24 hours.
We didn’t really win that one, though. The draft dodging was a symptom of deeper domestic problems that led to the American pull-out. I think that’s the parallel this article wants us to make.
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