The latest setback for President Vladimir Putin’s mandated deployment of 300,000 soldiers in Ukraine has seen thousands of Russians sent home and the military commissar of Russia’s Khabarovsk area fired.
After its forces were defeated on the battlefield in Ukraine, Russia mobilised for the first time since World War II, which inflamed animosity and led to the exodus of thousands of soldiers.
A few thousand men applied for conscription in less than ten days, according to Mikhail Degarev, the governor of Russia’s far east Khabarovsk area, but many of them were ineligible.
Degarev noted in a Telegram video that “almost half of them went home since they did not match the selection criterion for military duty.”
He further stated that although the military commissioner in the area had been fired, this had no bearing on the mobilisation.
Although it was stated that the mobilisation process involved recruiting people with military experience, it frequently seemed to disregard service histories, health, student status, and even age.
The Kremlin’s proclamation of the annexation of 4 areas of Ukraine on Friday did not stop the internal backlash against Russia for the way it carried out its military campaign.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Putin’s allies in Chechnya in southern Russia, demanded a change in course of action up to “the imposition of martial law in the border regions and the use of low-yield nuclear weapons” on Saturday.
Other well-known Russians expressed their disapproval of Sergei Shoigu, the defence minister, and the commanders of the Russian army on social media on Saturday, but they did not condemn Vladimir Putin.
Unqualified… Thousands of Russians have been encouraged to leave
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