From Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...-moscow-holds-referendums-in-parts-of-ukraine
Russian officials said 300,000 troops are needed, with priority given to people with recent military experience and vital skills.
The Kremlin has denied reports by two Russian news outlets based abroad - Novaya Gazeta
Europe and Meduza - that the real target is more than 1 million.
Reports have surfaced across Russia of men with no military experience or past draft age suddenly receiving call-up papers, Reuters reports.
On Saturday the head of the Kremlin’s Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeyev, publicly announced that he had written to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu with a request to “urgently resolve” problems of the mobilisation.
His 400-word Telegram posting criticised the way exemptions were applied and listed several cases of inappropriate enlistment including nurses and midwives with no military experience.
“Some (recruiters) hand over the call-up papers at 2 a.m., as if they think we’re all draft dodgers,” he said.
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The pro-Kremlin editor of Russia’s state-run RT news channel expressed anger that enlistment officers were sending call-up papers to the wrong men, as frustration at the recent military mobilisation grew across
Russia.
Wednesday’s announcement of Russia’s first public mobilisation since the second world war, to shore up its faltering invasion of
Ukraine, has triggered a rush for the border by eligible men, the arrests of more than 1,000 protesters, and unease among the wider population, Reuters reports.
“It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Summonses are going to 40-year-olds,” the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, railed on her Telegram channel.
“They’re infuriating people, as if on purpose, as if out of spite. As if they’d been sent by Kyiv.”
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